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Originally Posted by boz130
Ah, the more things change, the more they stay the same. Let's get into the Way Back Machine w/Mr. Peabody and go to that long-past year, 1974. Say we stop in Illinois.
Since the Land of Lincoln is situated next to the border of America's Dairyland (Wisconsin), many of us flatlanders were prone to heading north to quaff brewskis. At that point, Wisconsin's state law said it was OK to drink @ 18. Illinois had come up w/a hybrid law: beer/wine @ 19 & hard stuff @ 21.
This law worked...for a while. Then the Dept. of Transportation started noticing that there were far too many kids between the ages of 19-20 ending up in their local morgues due to drunk driving. That's why MADD doesn't want to see anybody getting the age brought down to 18.
Wish all you want, gang...since the 21-years-old law is attached @ the hip to highway $$$, it's not gonna change.
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You just said yourself that people were driving state to state. Doesn't that maybe have more to do w/ the drunk driving being higher than age? I think the drunk driving would have gone down just as much if all of the states had gone to 18 or 19 instead.
And the group does state that they want the Federal Highway Funding Act re-evaluated/eliminated.
http://www.amethystinitiative.org/statement/