[joeswamp]

Man I really hope they don't do the 55mph speed limits again, I remember rejoicing when they were finally lifted.

The problem with the 55mph speed limits is that they're just so painfully low they're impossible to really enforce -- EVERYONE is speeding. So what that means is nobody knows what the real speed limit is, and you end up with this enormous variation in speeds on the highway. Pessimists are going 56 while optimists are going 80. And of course since this is the USA there are no rules about which is the slow or the fast lane.

Don't know if statistics back it up (would probably be difficult to accurately measure) but it seemed kinda dangerous to me at the time.