Happy Sunday gang!! I'm not sure if I've mentioned yet that the ::On This Day:: is a little format I'm testing out. I've been contemplating the ways I can link this blog together with the Ocho-rific Song o the Day and one of the ways that keeps occurring to me is the format I've used today.
Today's ::On This Day:: is from 1974 -
Today's Ocho-rific Song o the Day relates to today's ::On This Day:: too,
making it that much more interesting :)
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::From the WIKI::
::From the WIKI::
The National Maximum Speed Law in the United States was a provision of the 1974 Emergency Highway Energy Conservation Act that prohibited speed limits higher than 55 mph (90 km/h). This law was modified in 1987 to allow 65 mph (105 km/h) limits on certain roads.
The law was widely disregarded by motorists. Most states subversively opposed the law, ranging from proposing deals for exemption from it to minimizing speeding penalties.
This cap was intended to reduce gasoline consumption by 2.2% in response to the 1973 oil crisis. However, net fuel savings were calculated by the United States Department of Transportation at 1%, and independent studies found savings as low as half of one percent.
In 1995, the law was repealed, returning the power of setting speed limits to the states.
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