PR of CIA 08_10_05 Lowering the speed limit.

During the most popular presidency of history (Ronald Reagan's) we had to lower the speed limit. Fuel costs were getting the best of us. Sound familiar? You know as well as I do, the way to do it, is to put in the news that Hwy fatalities outstrip casualties of war. Then intro a bill to lower the speed limit and bring down fuel consumption and hwy fatalities at once. not real popular? Got a better idea? l4r *****NOTES*****my letter dated 08_10_05 was badly worded to say the least, but contained the kernel of an idea on how to lower the speed limit politically. In short, I suggested comparing hwy fatalities to war casualty numbers. Raising the speed limit is popular with people, but I suspect harder to justify politically than lowering the speed limit. In 1989-90, I understood the discussion in terms of a gas flow in a venturi chamber. Traffic at a higher velocity puts a lower pressure on the "walls" on the "traffic tube." In traffic engineering now, the academics put beads in a gas flow, and observe collisions among beads. If we lower the speed limit to save gas and lives, raising it based on the collisions of beads or lack of collisions, is going to be a political hard sell. Dr Bush was a political genius to have raised the speed limit in 1990, and I wouldn't know how to duplicate the feat such that raising and lowering the speed limit became a recreational activity for oil barons and politicians. I believe that the White house objects to lowering the speed limit, because Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld compared war casualties to deaths in Los Angeles due to murder. This had the incidental effect of bringing out an anti-gun lobby.