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The Fuel Cost of Obesity 285

thecarchik writes "America loves to complain about gas mileage and the cost of gasoline. As it turns out, part of the problem is us. How much does it really matter? A study by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention found a 1.1 percent increase in self-reported obesity, which translates into extra weight that your vehicle has to haul around. The study estimates that 1 billion extra gallons of fuel were needed to compensate for passenger weight gained between 1960 and 2002."

Comment Maybe this is the solution for the social networks (Score 0) 159

Facebook and Twitter should automatically send this to the home of their dead users and then -maybe- people would stop complaining that the social networks aren't doing enough on death? But I guess people would just complain when they get a coffin a few years too late, so how about a coffin on sign-up? "Sign up today and get this brand new self-burying coffin!"

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