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another TWF meme?!
Posted in Kids, Mountains, pictures, Travel with tags 4086m, brands, CO2 categories, Der Nord Wal, hybrid car, Jeep, Mont Blanc, polluters, SUV, The Norse Farce, The North Face, TNF on July 21, 2025 by xi'an
the last argument of drivers
Posted in Travel with tags car accidents, France Inter, French elections, gilets jaunes, speed limit, SUV, The Last Argument of Kings, wind farms on February 2, 2019 by xi'an
When vaguely listening to the national public radio France Inter last night, while cooking dinner, I heard Patrick Septiers, president of le conseil départemental de Seine et Marne, express his (electorate catering) opposition to the new 80km/h speed limit on national and departmental roads on the most rational (!) argument that delivery trucks drove at that speed already and hence that the speed limit would “force” car drivers to break the law to pass trucks. Along with similarly rational claims to have each department regulate its speed limits on the basis it was financing most roads. (I had another illustration of the rationality above when walking by a big SUV this morning, with a large sticker against wind farms.)
