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Oregon had been among a handful of states where the highest speed limit was still 65 mph. Rep. Phil Barnhart, a Eugene Democrat, lamented the bill to raise the limit. Barnhart harkened to the 1970s, when speed limits were lowered under President Jimmy Carterâs administration amid a national oil shortage.
Portions of the Idaho, Montana, Nevada, South Dakota, Texas, Utah, and Wyoming road networks have 80 mph (129 km/h) posted limits. The highest posted speed limit in the entire country can be found on the Texas State Highway 130, and it is 85 mph (137 km/h). For 13 years (January 1974âApril 1987), federal law withheld Federal highway trust funds to states that had speed limits above 55 mph (89 km/h).