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Originally Posted by KCrockaholic
Just curious...How many beers it would take to get someone to hit .08. I had 2 beers once and blew a .01.
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Too many factors involved to be really accurate. No one number will be the same for everybody. Weight, metabolism, length of time between drinks, alcohol content of drink, et all play a factor. Several years back me and a bunch of guys stopped at the local watering hole after work. I stayed for about two and a half hours. Drank probably a 6 pack of light beer (around 4.5 % alc) in a couple hours. Stopped drinking around a half hour before I left because I figured I had enough. Sure enough got pulled over by the cities finest on the way home. Blew a .06 which was under. But thats a fairly sizable guy with about 3 hours from the time I started drinking until the time I actually blew. And no the limit should not be raised. At .06 I was nowhere near plastered but could tell I had been drinking. At .08 I would have definately been impaired. .10 is just too high for the average person to be driving. Knowing what I know now I try to limit myself to around 3 to 4 drinks if I have to drive just to be safe.