Evan MacKenzie

Ride, more, weigh less, save gas!

From www.grist.org

Junk in the Trunk

American food-guzzling leads to more gas-guzzling

Here's more motivation to go on that diet: You'll use less gasoline.
Non-commercial U.S. vehicles are using at least 938 million more gallons
of gasoline annually than they did in 1960 because drivers and
passengers are considerably heavier and are dragging down fuel economy,
says a University of Illinois study to be published in The Engineering
Economist. In 1960, the average adult female weighed 140 pounds and the
average male weighed 166; in 2002, the averages were 164 and 191
respectively, and 62 percent of adults were considered overweight. That
938 million gallons is no shabby amount: It represents $2.8 billion if
gas is selling for $3 a gallon, and could fuel some 1.7 million cars for
a year, or feed the entire U.S. gasoline addiction for three days. "We
had no idea the numbers would be this big," said study coauthor Sheldon
Jacobson, who calls using less fuel an "unexpected benefit" of losing
that spare tire.

Evan MacKenzie

Urban Planner I

City of Hillsboro

150 E. Main Street, 4th floor

Hillsboro, OR 97123

503-681-6154

evanm@ci.hillsboro.or.us

http://www.ci.hillsboro.or.us/Planning_Department/

Try Hillsboro Maps!

Tons of info on any (addressed) property in Hillsboro

http://hillsboromaps.ci.hillsboro.or.us/hillsboro/index.cfm

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