Weight Gain Means Lower Gas Mileage?
CHICAGO (AP) - Want to spend less at the pump? Lose some weight. That’s the implication of a new study that says Americans are burning nearly 1 billion more gallons of gasoline each year than they did in 1960 because of their expanding waistlines. Simply put, more weight in the car means lower gas mileage.
Using recent gas prices of $2.20 a gallon, that translates to about $2.2 billion more spent on gas each year.
“The bottom line is that our hunger for food and our hunger for oil are not independent. There is a relationship between the two,'’ said University of Illinois researcher Sheldon Jacobson, a study co-author.
Is there possibly a political agenda here? Tax the fatty foods, raise the gas prices, and then fund a study to correlate the two. How’s that for a right-wing nut-job conspiracy for ya? Maybe if you took the time to have a bowel movement before you drove you could even better MPG’s?! Go ahead, fund THAT study. Perhaps having more abortion on demeand will lighten the load? You’d save all that weight from car seats, toys, bottles, strollers and of course the little tots.
Sorry, had to go off a bit there…here, read the whole stupid study yourself.
