In France you can no longer drive faster than 50 mph. Eric Peters explores this absurdity. From Peters at theburningplatform.com:
It’s not just obnoxiously high fuel taxes the French are rioting over. It’s also obnoxiously low speed limits.
Last year, the government of Emmanuel Macron decreed the equivalent of America’s ’70s-era Drive 55 regime – which afflicted American drivers until the mid 1990s – only it’s worse because it’s Drive 50 (80 kilometers per hour, maximum).
On every two-lane highway in the country.
Sammy Hagar, rev up your Ferrari.
This time, it’s to Save the Planet – rather than (as here, back in the ‘70s) to Save Gas.
Both being mere excuses to stick it to the people.
There was an “energy crisis” In the U.S. back in the early-mid ’70s, but it was entirely artificial. Scarcity imposed by governments and their associated cartels. There was plenty of oil – it was just being withheld for political purposes.
Note that Uncle always had (and has) plenty of gas – regardless of the “crisis” – and used it as profligately then as he still does today.
