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Title: Senator asks if nation's drivers should slow down
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URL Source: http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20080703/ap_on_go_co/warner_speed_limit
Published: Jul 3, 2008
Author: JOSEF HEBERT
Post Date: 2008-07-03 21:42:02 by Jethro Tull
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Views: 512
Comments: 39
Senator asks if nation's drivers should slow down By H. JOSEF HEBERT, Associated Press Writer WASHINGTON - An influential Republican senator suggested Thursday that Congress might want to consider reimposing a national speed limit to save gasoline and, in turn possibly ease fuel prices. Sen. John Warner, R-Va., asked Energy Secretary Samuel Bodman to look into what speed limit would provide optimum gasoline efficiency given current technology. He said he wants to know if the administration might support efforts in Congress to require a lower speed limit. Congress in 1974 set a national 55 mph speed limit because of energy shortages caused by the Arab oil embargo. The speed limit was repealed in 1995 when crude oil dipped to $17 a barrel and gasoline cost $1.10 a gallon. As motorists headed on trips for this Fourth of July weekend, gasoline averaged $4.10 a gallon nationwide with oil hovering around $145 a barrel.
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#2. To: Jethro Tull (#0)
I think they should raise the drinking age to 75 and lower the speed limit to 21.
Wanna go into to the Vespa distribution business?
Senator Warner comes from two long lists of extinguished gentlemen.. 1. Men that have been US Senators. 2. Men that have slept with Elizabeth Taylor.
Slip Mahoney also used that in a Bowery Boys movie. I was impressed.
I think Warner is the only one LIVING....hehehehehehe
He looks like Dr. Zachary Smith.
Either of you two ...GENTLEMEN... recall seeing a full length photo of Taylor when she was 16???????? Shorts and peasant blouse?????
Not this one?:
Nope... Bare footed, shorts, blouse, standing on tip toes.
this one's nice
Well, is okay. Most of you are too young to have seen the photo I speak of. It was not a promotional type thing.
Check out the redwood carving of a nude Elizabeth Taylor.
that's a great clip. big Sur is one of my favorite places in the world. what a shame that a forest fire has engulfed over 60,000 acres up there last i heard. driving up PCH you see all sorts of little what look like abandoned shacks and tiny houses on green pastures and cliffs overlooking the ocean. (not far from hearst castle). I cant help but think, good grief where the hell are the owners of those houses and why arent they living there? Imagine where they must live to pass up an opportunity to live there. I think big sur is one of the most beautiful places in the world., although perhaps if i travelled more i'd come to a different conclusion. ;-)
#39. To: Artisan (#38)
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Dick and Liz bought property there on an impulse and never even stayed there. It's a bit of a snooty status symbol for people who pretend to be above and beyond conspicuous consumption and ostentatious displays of wealth. Of course, for artists who go there to "live in seclusion" it's about the fastest way to get their work in a Paris gallery, or a Hollywood flick. Here's the Nepenthe Restaurant webcam looking from their deck to the coast. Last time I checked the smoke had the visibility down to about 10 feet. Sculptor Edmund Kara's PHOENIX BIRD is also on display at the restaurant. It's still dark in CA right now. It usually looks like this: EDIT at 5:09 Pacific-it's still as smokey as before there I see.
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#6. To: Esso (#2)
#9. To: Jethro Tull (#6)
You better listen up.
#10. To: Cynicom (#9)
extinguished gentlemen..
#13. To: MUDDOG (#10)
Slip Mahoney also used that in a Bowery Boys movie. I was impressed.
#15. To: Cynicom (#13)
I think Warner is the only one LIVING....hehehehehehe
#17. To: MUDDOG, orangedog (#15)
#22. To: Cynicom (#17)
#24. To: angle (#22)
#25. To: Cynicom (#24)
#26. To: christine (#25)
this one's nice
#27. To: Cynicom, christine, lodwick (#26)
#38. To: HOUNDDAWG (#27)
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