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To: Bank Holding Company who wrote (42210)	9/29/2011 10:45:23 PM
From: benwood	Respond to of 71455

Your joking, right -- the broken window fallacy?

To: Bank Holding Company who wrote (42210)	9/30/2011 12:58:24 AM
From: maceng2	Respond to of 71455

I can attest to the fact that driving at 55mph is much better on the nerves then 80+mph, and actually driving at the slower speed often saves time as you recover from the journey faster. The truth is, on British freeways, people do drive at 80+ mph a lot of the time and modern cars drive at this speed easily. Back in the 1980's the speed limit was 70 mph but the freeways were not festooned with speed cameras like they are today. There was many less "nanny state" arseholes spending thier lives dictating what other people should be doing. I used to regularly drive from Glasgow to Cheltenham on the motorway (freeway) M74/M6/M5 late at night / early morning at a high speed. The three lane motorway was empty at that time of day and it was safe (imho) to do so. Every now and again I would come across a police car.... overtaking me, and it would be doing over a 100mph to do so. I would accasionally slow down at roadworks or if there was a stationary police presence. People drive at too high a speed all the time. If it starts raining, or the roads get busy, I have always been one of the first people to slow down, usually to 50 mph or something like that. It is frightening to see how people become unconnected with the physics of driving at high speed, like talking on the phone and driving too close to the vehicle in front. It also happens at 55 mph too though. I've seen deadly accidents happen at 30mph. A car going out of control at 30mph (like glancing a curb and spinning) is truly frightening and it's quite possible to go through the windscreen at that speed in a crash. 30mph is in fact very fast, galloping horse speed. More 20mph speed limits in town and more 80mph limits on freeways, and pushing all the people who feel it necessary to control other people lives over a cliff (prefably Beachy head) gets my vote all the way. Read the comments once again, and the number of endorsements. That is reality.