So then what would be the suggestion? Sometimes laws are necessary to help or protect those who can't or won't do it them selves. If on a national level if lowering the speed limit 10 to 15 mph would help decrease our dependance on foreign oil or any oil for that matter then it should be addressed regardless of how popular or unpopular it is. Granted there are some laws that are nonsense, but they are necessary because without most of them there would be utter chaos. Brian On Apr 24, 2008, at 1:16 PM, Chip Mefford wrote:
> Brian Schneider wrote: >> Hello, >> Just a comment, why don't we in the US do something else that was >> done in the 70's oil crisis...drop the speed limit back to 55. > > There were a *lot* of problems with this. I'm not going to > go into it all, in fact, I'm barely going to scratch the > surface. But essentially, the nationwide 55mph speed limit > was about as popular as prohibition, and caused many of > the same problems. > > In interest of full disclosure, > when ever I hear 'There ought to be a law", > I duck. > > We have plenty of laws. a few orders of magnitude > too many I'd say. In fact, I'd point to the > current state of affairs as my primary exhibit > in the 'laws don't fix anything' presentation. > > > _______________________________________________ > Biofuel mailing list > Biofuel@sustainablelists.org > http://sustainablelists.org/mailman/listinfo/sustainablelorgbiofuel > > Biofuel at Journey to Forever: > http://journeytoforever.org/biofuel.html > > Search the combined Biofuel and Biofuels-biz list archives (70,000 > messages): > http://www.mail-archive.com/biofuel@sustainablelists.org/ _______________________________________________ Biofuel mailing list Biofuel@sustainablelists.org http://sustainablelists.org/mailman/listinfo/sustainablelorgbiofuel Biofuel at Journey to Forever: http://journeytoforever.org/biofuel.html Search the combined Biofuel and Biofuels-biz list archives (70,000 messages): http://www.mail-archive.com/biofuel@sustainablelists.org/
