Too, too cruel

CHAMPAIGN, Ill. — As American waistlines have expanded since 1960, so has their consumption of gasoline, researchers at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign and Virginia Commonwealth University say.

Americans are now pumping 938 million gallons of fuel more annually than they were in 1960 as a result of extra weight in vehicles. And when gas prices average $3 a gallon, the tab for overweight people in a vehicle amounts to $7.7 million a day, or $2.8 billion a year.

link: Weight gain of U.S. drivers has increased nation's fuel consumption | Archives | News Bureau | University of Illinois

So, obviously, we don't need a higher CAFE standard, we need to ban potato chips.

Well?