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Every time I hear someone mention a national 55 MPH speed limit, I think of that brilliant American leader Jimmy Carter. If only he had stayed in Georgia and grown peanuts...  |
55 MPH was a Nixon thing :
National Maximum Speed Law - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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The National Maximum Speed Law in the United States was a provision of the 1974 Emergency Highway Energy Conservation Act intended to reduce national crude oil consumption and was enacted as a specific response to the 1973 Oil Crisis. The law prohibited speed limits higher than 55 mph (90 km/h). In 1987 the law was modified to allow 65 mph (105 km/h) limits on certain roads and was repealed in 1995. Four years after the provision was repealed, crude oil prices began a rapid climb, rising in 9 years from $17 a barrel in 1999 to as high as $140 a barrel in 2008.
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