New excuse to lower the speed limit

[yod]

they coudl also buy a fleet of Hyundai Getz's instead of the 34 beemers with what; 3-4 litre diesel engines(?), that are the new parliamentary vehicles

[peasea]

Drop your speed to 90 and in my experience, things only get worse. Like I say, YMMV for non-aerodynamic bricks, mk1 escorts, hillman imps, etc, but in the main, most cars get better MPG at 120 (and possibly higher, on long flat straight roads like the new expressways).

I know ours does. A 5.7l V8 Holden Berlina is at it's best (in overdrive) at about 117kph. The engine is making gobs of torque at that pace and if I slow it down it often slips back a cog, using more gas. It's also only an $80 fine at that pace but the soon to banned radar detector that's on my shopping list will counter a lot of that bs.

[scracha]

Bwhahaha. Next they'll be telling us we need a flag waving man walking in front of our vehicles.

With the $hite roads going through towns and over railway lines it already takes the best part of a day to go between Dorkland and Wellywood. The railway system is a joke and air travel doesn't exactly help the environment (and even if it did we only get ripped off by shitey "welcome to our monopoly " Air New Zealand).

[Hitcher]

I don't think either concept would make for pr0n that I'd want to watch.

Particularly the hippies, whose excessively rampant body hair would velcro them together. Great flailing dreadlocks, Batman!

[Edbear]

Who remembers 1974 and the 80km/hr limit being imposed? Fun times when I used to get tickets for doing 99 on the highway - sheesh!!

And the car-less days!

[Forest]

Before anyone says "this will never happen" they should read this.

The National Maximum Speed Law (in the United States) was a provision of the 1974 Emergency Highway Energy Conservation Act[1] that capped all speed limits at 55 mph (90 km/h). This cap was intended to conserve gasoline in response to the 1973 oil crisis. This law was modified in the late 1980s to allow 65 mph (105 km/h) limits. In 1995 it was repealed, returning the power of setting speed limits to the states.

[peasea]

And the car-less days!

I was told Carlos Daze was a Mexican guitarist.

[Grahameeboy]

Fuck it, I'm revolting.

I couldn't agree more

[Grahameeboy]

Yeah. Burn them!

Remember the emission gases?

[Hitcher]

I was told Carlos Daze was a Mexican guitarist.

I think you maybe confused with Manuel Labour.

[The Pastor]

my 83 civic 1.3l hatch gets much more km to the tank at 140km/hr than 100. It was the same with my gpz1000. It loved 150km/hr. just slowly wallowed along

[Mikkel]

I find that the fuel efficiency of my GT-B is really good at 200 km/h... So far I have used less than one litre of petrol travelling at that speed.

[Hitcher]

The Lorenz Contraction further enhances fuel economy.

[Mikkel]

But then, that pesky time dilation is so bloody hard to get your head around...

[Hitcher]

A fencing instructor named Fisk
Had a technique exceedingly brisk
So fast was his action
The Lorenz Contraction
Foreshortened his foil to a disc.