By Joe Benton
ConsumerAffairs.com
July 15, 2008
A handful of people on Capitol Hill are once more talking about instituting a nationwide 55 mph speed limit in an effort to reduce gasoline and diesel fuel consumption.
Most members of the Congress would prefer to talk about something else.
Nevertheless, a Virginia Senator keeps on bringing up the old double nickel despite the 55 mph speed limit’s history of angering motorists and littering county court houses with speeding tickets while enriching local governments at the expense of drivers.
The first time Congress imposed the double nickel the …