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From: laura@utcsstat.UUCP
Newsgroups: net.flame
Subject: 55 saves lives
Message-ID: <667@utcsstat.UUCP>
Date: Sun, 12-Jun-83 05:59:13 EDT
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Posted: Sun Jun 12 05:59:13 1983
Date-Received: Sun, 12-Jun-83 07:06:33 EDT
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55 doesnt save lives! 55 saves GAS! 55 came in when gas was expensive.
Because gas was expensive, a lot of people drove less. The lives saved
was proportional to the number of drivers, NOT THE SPEED LIMIT.

Now that gas has not all gone away (and remember when there was going
to be no gas in 1985?) people are driving again. And getting killed.
And it is still proportional to the number of drivers. And in Ontario,
where they lowered the speed limit with metrification without telling
anybody there was no appreciable difference in  lives saved.

AND STATISTICS LIE AND YOU ARE BEING CONNED OFTEN BY PEOPLE WHO HAVE 
BEEN CONNED THEMSELVES.

This is net.flame. I dont have to post my figures. Get your own for
your state/province and run your own curve-fit prgm, courtesty any
physics department if you dont already have one.

I am pissed off at being lied to by damn fools with lots of statistics
and no brains and inadequate research!

(this scortching enough for those who dont want serious discussions in
net.flame? If not, piss off! )

Laura