Re: Libs proven right - Higher speed limits do KILL

On 24 Nov 2003 20:07:06 -0800, [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Laura Bush -
America's kid-killer) wrote:

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>http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&cid=519&ncid=519&e=12&u=/ap/20031124
>/ap_on_re_us/speed_limit_deaths_1
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The study was actually based on data from New Zealand.  The IIHS used
the New Zealand data to *estimate* additional deaths, instead of
looking at the actual numbers.  We can assume from this that the
actual numbers did not support their conclusion.

Insurance companies use speeding tickets as an excuse to raise auto
insurance rates.  They want speed limits to be set ridiculously low,
so that all their customers get speeding tickets.  That maximizes
profits for the insurance companies.

-- 
"And I can't describe how I felt when I picked up that rifle, 
loaded it into my little car, and drove home.  It seemed so 
incredibly strange: Sarah Brady, of all people, packing heat."  
 - source: "A Good Fight", Sarah Brady, chapter 21, page 223 
of first edition hardback, ISBN 1-58648-105-3