Senator Hillary Rodham Clinton, ex-First Lady and likely future presidential candidate threw out an odd legal suggestion to the National Press Club this week: a nationwide return to the double-nickel. According to Clinton, "The 55-mile speed limit really does lower gas usage. And wherever it can be required, and the people will accept it, we ought to do it..."

The announcement comes as a surprise, despite rising gas prices and increased pressure from environmentalists, as it is unlikely to prove popular with voters.Naturally, that's not the only automotive issue on her mind... among other four-wheeled initiatives, Clinton reported that she is pushing for 50 percent of America's gas stations to offer ethanol by 2015, with 100 percent by 2025.

http://fortune.com/2016/03/07/hillary-clintons-pledge-to-limit-fracking-falls-on-unconvinced-ears/

Right now, I think the best use for ethanol is to pour a couple gallons down her throat and lit it up.

and that bitches limo rolls down the road at 90 i'll bet. fuggen elitists make me sick.

All great points for Trump to hammer on during the debates...

"Do you want to go back to a 55mph speed limit...vote for her."

That broad hasn't bought a gallon of gas or driven herself to the grocery store in 40 years but feels qualified to tell the nation how things should be on the open road?
Typical for an Elitist Liberal Nitwit.

First time we went on a trip after the other 55, my wife wrapped up that little Volkswagon in 3rd, shifted, and said: "thats it?" Nobody obeyed, a lot of the cars were lugging even. My truck isn't happy until around 60+ in 5th.

As said, she doesn't have to drive anywhere, specially without a chauffeur, and then at whatever speed.

Ethanol is a conspiracy to ruin older engines forcing us to buy battery thingmabobs, and to support a few large croporate farmers.

She wants America to experience what went down in the Soviet Union: us little people sweeping the gutters with a straw broom while she and her entourage blast by in black limousines with the curtains drawn so that she doesn't have to look at our abject misery.

Everybody can slow to 55 and save a couple gallons, then the states will whine that there isn't enough cash via gas tax to fix roads and surprise,
Gas tax will jump but we can afford it with lower pump prices, Yippee!

Of all the idiotic laws I've seen come out of this nation the 55 mph speed limit has to have been the worst. Not only did to cement the concept of traffic laws as a means of raising revenue, it killed a lot of people too. If you don't believe me then look up the NHTSA traffic death data. Highway deaths dropped a lot after it was repealed in 1994.

Proposing a return to that idiotic law should automatically remove her from the running.

Most cars I've driven/owned/run all seemed to get better fuel mileage above 55 - 65 or 70 it seems.

When we had it years ago, Idaho was forced to comply so they passed a law putting a $5 fine on speeding between 55 and 65 (or maybe it was 70). The police were exceptionally lenient, too.

Thank you. Took the words right out of my mouth.

I think she slam dunks a few Jack and Cokes and then just dreams this schit up. TFF

Same think in Wyoming. It was a $5 fine up to 75 and a 5 dollar rebate on the fine if you were wearing your seatbelt.

Nah, go with straight gasoline.

This chit is getting old......die biotch!

Obama got by with being a worse president than Jimmah, so why not bring back the glory of the Jimmah era?

Oddly Hillary broke all kinds of laws and lost her job during the prosecution/persecution of the president who brought us the 55 MPH national speeds limit...and laid the groundwork for our economic demise at the hands of the ChiComs. Kind of puts establishment politics in perspective.

"Wherever it can be required". Why the hell does EVERY DAMN THING have to be mandated? If you choose to save gas (and as stated before, a lot of vehicles do better at greater speeds), why not allow the people to have a choice? Just because the speed limit is 65, does not mean you MUST drive 65. Lefties cannot WAIT to FORCE you to follow their "suggestions".

She's a freakin' IDIOT.. THAT was back when most cars had 350ci +/- V-8s and got 10 mpg on a good day..
Now, it would do bupkis.

And I'd LOVE to see how them mudducks just west of me would 'accept' 55 mph... Only time they'd get to that rate would be at a school parking lot when the buses would be droppin' off the kiddies... Even then, they'd cheat by 5 mph..

Does anyone else have an older car with a speedometer that only goes to 85? For you younger guys, during the last 55 mph fiasco, they passed a law saying that speedos had to be capped at 85. The idea was that speeders wanted to see how fast their car would go. If they wouldn't see it on the speedo, they'd wouldn't go as fast.

I remember seeing an 1100cc Kawasaki of that era equipped with an 85mph speedo. Pffft!

That's what I was thinking also. The sign says Speed Limit - slow down if you want to or, spend and extra $1 and get there sooner. Your choice.

My '85 Mustang GT had an 85-mph speedometer, I promptly bought a 140-mph speedometer from Ford and swapped it out in 10 minutes!!

I think progressives just sit around half the day trying to figure out ways they can control us plebeians.

Did the same thing in my 84 Volvo Wagon when I bought it new.

The 55 MPH Speed limit was Nixon's bright idea, and it was repealed by Reagan, IIRC.

I was in college when it was dropped back in 73 or 74... I use to take long trips home to VA from Massachusetts, and even points further south. Even owning a VW Squareback, the only way I could keep to that 55 speed limit, was to stop at McDonalds and get a cup of ice water, and pour that out.

Have a 12 pack of beer with me on ice, and would drive along sipping that thru the Mac's cup and straw... get a 4 beer buzz and nurse it for 500 miles...

Would go to Canada, and they didn't have that lower limit, so I'd run 85 like I use to stateside... crossing the border back into the USA, 55 mph felt like I was walking....

doesn't NY and Connecticut still have the 55 mph speed limt?

I know folks in CT still didn't follow speed limits, the last time I was in New England...

Cops on I 5 here in Oregon enforce the 65 mph pretty heavily, south of Eugene, with HUGE fines.... loved going thru Arizona where its 75 and everyone does 90, and then when I was in Texas going to Ed Too Many Letters place in last year...Loved it.

Low speed limits, is just another example of liberals lunacy...

As I've said for months, time is not on her side.






Dave

Now they have cars that have speedometers that go up there to 120+, and engines that will exceed that, but they put speed limiters on them so you can't do that speed.

Yeah, it was Nixon. In fact he wanted it to be 50 mph.

Yeah, until it's disabled/removed...

Just like those kill switches under tractor seats.. FIRST thing one does upon obtaining a new tractor is to bypass THAT little gadget..

Well in my relatives home county in WVa that wouldn't have been a problem... between all the curves on the paved roads, and the zillion miles of 1 and half laned dirt roads...

Personally I'm still holding out for that plane crash...

although a Muslim suicide bomber would work, especially when you think about Benghazi and that "what does it matter" statement from the Be Itch.

What do you expect the Democratic Leadership is all cut from the same cloth one has to look no farther than Hilda Beast, Nancy Pelosi, and the Chairman of the Democratic Party Debbie Wasserman!

All three are crazier than a $hithouse Mouse and don't have sense enough to come inside in rain.!

Yeah, but 85-90 was a whole 'nother story. Cost me $50. That '76 T-bird was downright sleep-boring at anything under 75. So, to stay awake.....

My wife was living in Miles City, I was going to gunsmithing school/working in Denver. 500.1 miles between, once a month. Best time was just over 7 hours driving.

I liked them Gillette cops. They took IOUs. Once. If it was 30 below, they would just flash their bars at me as I went by....

But that was pre- coal-slurry...