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July 15, 2008
Fat Chance: Will High Gas Prices Fight Obesity?
By John Coyle
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In theory, this idea actually makes sense. I mean, think about it: if people actually have to walk or bike places—instead of just exercising their right foot—it stands to reason that they’d shed a few pounds. That said, as much as I’d like to see America lose its reputation as a land of fatties, I don’t think this Wired article is on target. After all, the average person commutes almost an hour to work everyday, so biking to work isn’t particularly practical, and modern suburbs are so spread out that trying to walk or bike anywhere would take forever. Instead of using alternate transportation, I figure people will just keep complaining, and eventually, buy fuel-efficient cars. What do you think? Will sky-high fuel prices be good for America’s health?
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Jim
Jul 17, 2008 at 6:57 am
Ah-no. Watch gas prices fall with the next election. Just watch.
GTwildfire
Jul 17, 2008 at 1:31 am
I have a forensic and linguistic team of experts trying to decipher the last post. Funny how sentences can be structured properly but the reader can still be left scratching his head.
Anonymous
Jul 16, 2008 at 4:32 pm
Funny you mention right foot excersize. I have a bad left leg, I am always excersizing my right foot. walking, riding, attempting to run..its always my right foot. At 40mpg in a 3 main boxer that saves the world… I may attempt to cross the continent on poverty based finances. How is that for excersizing my right foot. There is something else I would like to do with my right foot, and it involves auto manufacturing. Its all about the right feet.
i_luv_dusty
Jul 16, 2008 at 2:07 pm
I can’t think of one person I know that lives within walking or biking distance of where they work (or even shop).
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That article is pure BS.
GTwildfire
Jul 16, 2008 at 1:06 pm
What’s with this “run your car on water” stuff anyway?
Could someone cover this in the blog? Is it just B.S.? What’s the deal with that?
Highspeedhijinks
Jul 16, 2008 at 12:22 pm
yeah, the obesity of your bank account… pa dum pum
Run Your Car On Water
Jul 16, 2008 at 6:37 am
I think Everyone should go for bicycles they are safe to drive both for humans and nature.
GTwildfire
Jul 16, 2008 at 2:17 am
In the United States, except mostly in urban areas, exercise and transportation are two different things.
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If anything, Gym memberships and other expenses will be cut to pay for spiraling transportation costs, and the inflation that results.
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I believe the average weight will remain pretty much the same.
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There’s another weight problem that’s vastly more of a disturbance. The weight of investors who have exerted this pressure on oil prices and the world economy as a result.
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As is presently, this is a DEEPLY flawed system, allowing price speculation and other parlor games that even village idiots can see have departed from reality.
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I just read that today, the price of oil fell the most it has in 17 years, its price dropping $6.44 a barrel, a drop of 4.4 percent of its value. …”Mounting concerns about the risks inflation poses to the United States, the world’s biggest oil consumer, helped spark the declines”… I read. THAT REALLY REALLY PISSES ME OFF TO NO END.
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They bring us to the brink, then push more and more and more week after week driving the price further and further up for oil THEN get concerned?
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I apologise for saying this but they’re fucking greedy assholes and should NOT have the ability to trade in oil, PERIOD.
Stewart
Jul 16, 2008 at 12:31 am
I see a lot more scooters around.
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I don’t see a lot more bicycles.
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Overweight people are gonna be overweight, regardless of gasoline pricing.
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Like you said, most people live too far from work to ride a bike.
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And TikiTantrum, most overweight people are overweight, not because of genetics, but the plain simple fact that they DO NOT get enough exercise and they ingest WAY too many calories.
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Yes, genetics play a factor, but it’s NOT the MAIN reason.
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We Americans are a fat and lazy society.
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Sad, but true.
TikiTantrum
Jul 15, 2008 at 11:44 pm
You are assuming that the majority of people who are overweight, are overweight because of lack of exercise. This, in general, is not the case. Most people are genetically structured to have a certain body type.
However, for those that are fat because of laziness won’t drive less. A lazy person, like myself, would rather pay that 4-5 dollars than get on a bicycle.