Emotional attachment to speed

The EU’s energy commissioner, Andris Piebalgs, thinks it's a good idea to reduce fuel consumption by lowering the European speed limit to 90 km per hour (55.9 miles per hour). This idea is not universally popular:

Setting the speed limit to 90 km per hour would raise too many strong emotions in Germany, according to the Social Democrat chairman of the German parliament’s environment committee, Ernst Ulrich von Weizsäcker.

See, the Huns can be sensible, sometimes. Let those emotions flow.