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Originally Posted by camslambam
Sadly Americans can't handle no speed limits. Case in point Montana... Had no speed limit on its highways. People started coming over to top end their cars and what not and kept killing themselves... Now Montana has a speed limit on highways.
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IIRC, state speed limits were required through extortion from Washington DC. Adopt a speed limit or lose your federal highway funding.
Speed limits also came about due to the 1973 Oil Embargo, gas rationing and 55 mph national limit in 1973.