2007-08-08 09:43:58 · 7 answers · asked by jonsekerka0355 1 in Politics & Government ➔ Government
Lowered is not quite correct here. Before the bill was passed there was no "national speed limit". Speed limits were established by each state. Additionally, the bill did not actually set a national speed limit, it required states to post and enforce speed limits of 55 or lower in order to get federal road money.
2007-08-08 09:50:11 · answer #1 · answered by davidmi711 7 · 3⤊ 0⤋
"As an emergency response to the 1973 oil crisis, the U.S. Congress and President Nixon imposed a nationwide 55 mph (90 km/h) speed limit in 1974 by requiring the limit as a condition of each state receiving highway funds, a use of the Commerce Clause of the United States Constitution[2]."
2007-08-08 09:52:27 · answer #2 · answered by the_defiant_kulak 5 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Nixon
There was a rubber shortage and they thought if they put a gas shortage scare into the public, they could curb the rubber usage. I personally remember it well, it was just before I started driving.
2007-08-08 09:48:57 · answer #3 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
I think it was ford during the gas shortage, if not Ford it was Nixon
2007-08-08 09:47:57 · answer #4 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 2⤋
Carter
2007-08-08 09:46:34 · answer #5 · answered by dave b 2 · 0⤊ 4⤋
Ford?
2007-08-08 09:51:15 · answer #6 · answered by j b 5 · 0⤊ 3⤋
That would be Nixon
2007-08-08 10:17:28 · answer #7 · answered by Mark A 6 · 1⤊ 0⤋