“We tried this in the Seventies and it failed so miserably we want to try it again. What we don’t want to try is upsetting our fossil fuel overlords.”

Faced with a worsening climate crisis, high speeds are becoming harder to defend.

Motorway speed limits can lower fuel consumption and thereby cut pollution, including planet-heating emissionshttps://t.co/4JM3h1nyfc

— Bloomberg Opinion (@bopinion) September 8, 2021