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11-06-06, 12:59 PM
I thought this forum would get a kick out of this:
As American waistlines have expanded since 1960, so has their consumption of gasoline, researchers at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign and Virginia Commonwealth University say.
Americans are now pumping 938 million gallons of fuel more annually than they were in 1960 as a result of extra weight in vehicles. And when gas prices average $3 a gallon, the tab for overweight people in a vehicle amounts to $7.7 million a day, or $2.8 billion a year.
each extra pound of body weight in all of today's vehicles results in the need for more than 39 million gallons of extra gasoline usage each year.
Rest of the article: http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2006/10/061025183256.htm
Isn't it funny how the people who need to bike the most usually bike the least?
As American waistlines have expanded since 1960, so has their consumption of gasoline, researchers at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign and Virginia Commonwealth University say.
Americans are now pumping 938 million gallons of fuel more annually than they were in 1960 as a result of extra weight in vehicles. And when gas prices average $3 a gallon, the tab for overweight people in a vehicle amounts to $7.7 million a day, or $2.8 billion a year.
each extra pound of body weight in all of today's vehicles results in the need for more than 39 million gallons of extra gasoline usage each year.
Rest of the article: http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2006/10/061025183256.htm
Isn't it funny how the people who need to bike the most usually bike the least?