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or in white louis these things are flying off the shelf we've that we've
been uh... liberal gonna have to make another order incredible perfect yeah
five nazi war on the road but
right well it's gonna take a while i think mister but you know there's a lot
of cars in this country
the n_t_s_b_ is recommending to lowering the blood alcohol level that constitutes
drunk driving from point boat eight switches were all fifty states
currently set it up
two point zero
their are about ten thousand people a year who died in alcohol-related traffic
accidents about a hundred and seventy thousand or injured
some of those
of course um... are when there is alcohol in the car even though there may
not be evidence that anybody actually drank alcohol so there's some
some challenge over these numbers but there's no question that drunk driving
deaths and injuries are at the huge huge problem in this country i don't think
anybody would challenge that notion
this is down from what it was thirty years ago for example where twenty
thousand people died of alcohol related accidents but it's a huge threat to
public safety so the study say
about four million people year admit to driving all under the influence of
alcohol and the recommendation of course is upsetting restaurant trade groups who
were there
to lobby in favor of whatever will make restaurants more money of course if
people are worried about being pulled over because it's now a point below five
limit instead of point oh eight it stands to reason they will drink less
and restaurants might make less money
of course that would keep a lot of people safer when australia went from
point away two point oh five
there was depending on what report you look at
a five to eighteen percent drop in traffic fatalities
and um... there are actually not that many countries that even have point oh
eight as the standard right to canada
iraq and the u_s_ in a few other countries have point oh eight whereas
most countries in europe russia most of south america australia set the dac
level at michael five and that it does work to reduce traffic accident so what
is pulling away vs point oh five though so we know that there's a lot of factors
for blood alcohol level
your size
gender women uh... uh... uh... metabolize alcohol differently than do
men because of different
uh... fat verses muscle distributions in the body how much food you have in your
system
despite all of that
if you don't have more than a drink an hour
you're basically going to be safe is when it comes down to now lewis when you
were in sweden the idea there when you talk to people of drinking and driving
was like it was mind blowing people couldn't believe it
yeah they bay said
you can't do that
margaret e main right you can't do that
you know these are young people were at drinking with me they said you can't do
it at all if u if you get pulled over your urine
i guess there it's uh... no tolerance yeah i mean accnt say disagree and then
you get into the the kind of rhetorical doubles argument devil's advocate
argument which is a part of privacy for point o_ four is even safer point of
freezing in safer
then why not point oh two
why not just zero right and be done with it idon't think it's crazy to say if you
drink aegis really shouldn't rise point
zero point zero doesn't make sense because their medications and other
things which could trigger in oakland all one
point no one five close to a player too but i think that this is a good idea i
support this
i think it's i think it will only help i mean it's as a bartender you think this
is a good idea
in this country will never have
and zero tolerance policy so
this is an interest than expense ring