Could excess speed add to tax revenue? Limit should be 65

2006-05-18 / Letters

TO THE EDITOR:

I recommend that the state should reduce the speed limit on interstates from 70 mph to 65 mph and let the troopers start enforcing the law on I-20. Now, if you are going 70 mph, you are the slowest person out there. Most people are going 75-80 mph.

It is my understanding the law allows you to go 10 mph over the limit before the troopers will stop you. Could it be that, if the state starts enforcing the law, it will lose revenue on gas taxes as the faster people drive the more fuel is consumed and the more it makes off of the tax on gas?

[This is] My opinion only!

ROBERT COSBY

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