I'm with you Tingler. I'm not FAT but I don't need someone stating obvious things to me either. How much money was spent on THAT study? Oh well, kind of funny, but I'm laying out some seat tracks/rails right now for the buggy so I have a place to hold my fat-ass. I'm waiting for the "no consumption of JUNK FOOD in public places" law. Bring on the Twinkie tax! You know it's coming..... hahaha I think it takes a 100 pounds to shave a 1/10th of a second off your ET. Bet that doesn't equate to a heck of a lot of gas.
"Jacobson said the typical driver someone who records less than 12,000 miles annually would use roughly 18 fewer gallons of gas over the course of a year by losing 100 pounds. At $2.20 per gallon, that would be a savings of almost $40." Thats from that story...that is the must retarded thing I have ever heard...go ahead take the spare tire &jack out of your wifes suv you god damn idiot researchers...that lousey 40 bucks to leave her and the kids on the side of the road....then again that dont souund to bad j/k...That equation is pretty stupid though.
But if you are really fat and die at 50 you probably use less gas then the thin guy who dies at 75, there`s at least two sides to everything...
I think what these kinda BULLSHIT does is plant ideas into mindless mainstream America. So when someone comes out with another idiotic idea, people will say "oh, thats right, I need to lose weight to save gas". So what they will do is try to market a car made out of cardboard, and all our current steel cars will be "unsafe". My daily is an '85 saab with 247,000 miles that gets 30+ mpg all week long- how is it that new cars today don't get appreciably better fuel mileage? Maybe they should assign new cars a BMI also?
HAHAHA that sir, is correct i wont ride in the car if my girl's driving! she scares the shit out of me!!!
I reread the article and I'm pretty much convinced now that they were just talking to the women... The women should lose weight so we can all save on gas mileage.... You listening girls? It's no longer Vogue telling the ladies they could lose a few, now it's the DMV...
Skinny people gotta have the damn thermostat set at 90 degrees all winter long. There are people I don't fall thru on during the winter months for just that reason. No bullshit. I don't set the heat above 70 degrees- too uncomfortable...So it's a wash, in my case. I guess their theory is a crock of shit...
hmmmmmmm....fat people burn more gas,my ex-wife drives a lot...hmmm..if X+6/3-W=3#PiR@2.......I got it..my ex-wife is the cause of all of this shit
For the past month or so, I've been riding my bicycle about 10-15 miles three or four times a week to and along the Long Beach bike trail and since I've lost about 7 pounds so far, it makes driving my truck feel like it's got power steering! Actually, it's because my fat belly isn't pinning the steering wheel in one spot any more... Oh, and the mileage on the 10-15 mile bike trip is usually a quart of water and a chicken boob sandwich and a pear. The study is stooopid. They might as well have measured how much more carbon dioxide people exhale while exarcising over what they exhale while watching Oprah and blame the people who are trying to get "fit" with causing global warming. Hell, everyone knows the damage to the ozone layer is caused by the methane farts expelled by all the beef steer Mc Donalds grows for hamburgers!
I am most definitely offended by this thread. I represent the fat people on here and Oprah says it is someone elses fault. Dr Phil says it is my own fault. Government says it is my parents' fault. Who can I blame? No, I did not read the article, I'm at work, as if I have time for that drivel.
Reading all this has made me hungry, time for a couple of wendy's triples, a biggie fry, apple pie and...............diet pop!
It must be a slow news day. I did my part I took a shit before I went to the liquor store today. I think I will take some exlax tonite to get better gas mileage tomorrow. Dawg
I wonder how much gas is saved by not using a remote starter and letting it (interior) warm up 5-10 minutes before getting in a nice toasty (in winter) or cooling it down (in summer/arizona) before getting in and actually driving somewhere? Or idling in a drive-thru line at the fast (not moving) food joint talking on a cell phone.
The media in a few months will say that too many women are becoming bulimic and anorexic due to saving gas money and tell us to eat more. Idiots. I would like for news outlet to just say, nothing new today and switch to Munsters reruns instead of wasting the public airways with shit.
I'm about 20 pounds over my "ideal" weight and I eat properly....it's the beer that does it.......and I ain't giving it up for a gallon of gas now and then. Hell, I have overdrive in my sedan and we are putting a T-5 in Flower's roadster....we are doin' our part to save gas!!!!!
150pounds minus 100pounds equal 50 pounds, hell i think thats why all these actoress and models are so rich, they save gas milege like crazy in those hummers
I thought it was pretty extreme myself. Maybe it started as a joke. It make sense in a scientific way,but come on...Maybe they were talking about trimming the pork,in politics. THERE's a lot of dead meat on the HILL...
"University of Illinois researcher "Sheldon" Jacobson, a study co-author." What kind of name is SHELDON!! Must be one of those skinny bastards who has there finger in everyone elses business. Kiss my fat ass!!!
Yeah, that was in our local paper today, I read it while I was having a couple beers and piggin out on potato chips
http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20061025/ap_on_re_us/obesity_gas_consumption Basically it says, if you want to save on gas, LOSE WEIGHT. Cowardly liberals leading the sheeple! I think I'll fire up my two running duelled-out rides and back em up to each other and sit on a lounge chair between em with a couple of beers and some tater chips and listen to the stereo rumpity-rump for a while just to burn some gas..... I think that's what you call a run-on sentence.
Ha Ha thats nothing I had to get a special permit to take my ex wife to the mall.. We got frost laws here in Michigan ya know. Then there was the god damn wide load sign... Serouisly we had a company in our plant for some egronomic shit and they looked at the women we got working and asked where we got the chairs and if they were rated for enuff weight... HOLY COW.................... Dave
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