How out legal triple-digit speed limits?
Over at my home site, I argue that because of security-related time and system delays of airline travel, the break-even distance for driving rather than flying is already several hundred miles, and if the interstate’s speed limits were raised to 100 mph or more, driving would be an attractive option for even longer distances. It isn’t just a matter of time spent or money saved, either. Many bloggers and columnists have criticized rich global-warming activists for traveling on private jets rather than commercial air or ground travel. Here, for example. Jet engines are far more polluting than even SUV engines, even on a per-passenger-mile basis. So my kick line is this: Since even SUVs are many times less polluting than jet liners, especially of carbon dioxide, then would it not make sense for the global warming alarmists to lobby for raising interstate speed limits to make driving more attractive than flying for many trips? Read the whole post at Sense of Events.
