Spain Gets Smart - Cuts Highway Speed Limit to 50 mph, City to 25 mph

Save gas,money, and thousands of lives a year.  What's to argue?

http://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/europe/spain-cuts-speed-limit-and--
turns-out-lights-881401.html

Spain cuts speed limit and turns out lights

By John Lichfield
Thursday, 31 July 2008

Spain has seen the future and it is slow, dim and uncomfortable. A 
swingeing series of energy-saving measures announced by the Spanish 
government may be a foretaste of the kind of policies which will be forced

upon an energy-hungry industrial world in the coming decades.

To protests from motorists and mockery in parts of the press, the
Socialist 
government plans to cut motorway speed limits to 50mph and town speeds to 
25mph. New austerity rules will be imposed on the air conditioning and 
heating of all public buildings. Street-lighting will be cut by half.


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