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An article in the Washigton Post caught my eye.

MOTORISTS' OBESITY BLAMED FOR WASTED GASOLINE

A little belt-tightening could help Americans save on gas.

Americans are spending more money on fuel these days in part because adult men and women on average are at least 24 pounds heavier than their counterparts were in 1960, a study has found.

Today's automobiles are burning more gasoline to haul that extra weight around -- about 1 billion gallons more annually than they would if drivers today weighed the same as drivers did in 1960.

``What we have here is a relationship that exists between the obesity epidemic and fuel consumption,'' said Sheldon Jacobson, a professor at the University of Illinois

The question is:

Should fat people be taxed more to pay for the increased polution that their extra fuel consumption causes? There would of course be exceptions for those who can't help being overweight.

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Who can't help being overweight?

Also people who eat more therefore cause more transportation pollution.

I doubt a fat tax would ever get a party votes though.

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Originally posted by mancityboy
An article in the Washigton Post caught my eye.

MOTORISTS' OBESITY BLAMED FOR WASTED GASOLINE

A little belt-tightening could help Americans save on gas.

Americans are spending more money on fuel these days in part because adult men and women on average are at least 24 pounds heavier than their counterparts were in 1960, a study has found.

Toda ...[text shortened]... tion causes? There would of course be exceptions for those who can't help being overweight.
Well if thats the case then you can go back to the old way by just throwing out the spare tire, right?

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Originally posted by mancityboy
An article in the Washigton Post caught my eye.

MOTORISTS' OBESITY BLAMED FOR WASTED GASOLINE

A little belt-tightening could help Americans save on gas.

Americans are spending more money on fuel these days in part because adult men and women on average are at least 24 pounds heavier than their counterparts were in 1960, a study has found.

Toda ...[text shortened]... tion causes? There would of course be exceptions for those who can't help being overweight.
By that logic, poor people should be taxed more because they use more social services and the sickly should be taxed more since they consume more health care, right?

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Originally posted by der schwarze Ritter
By that logic, poor people should be taxed more because they use more social services and the sickly should be taxed more since they consume more health care, right?
The two logics would only be the same if fat people had no control over their weight. Fat people can work out, change their lifestyles and lose weight. Poor people are screwed. It is different I believe.

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Originally posted by mancityboy
An article in the Washigton Post caught my eye.

MOTORISTS' OBESITY BLAMED FOR WASTED GASOLINE

A little belt-tightening could help Americans save on gas.

Americans are spending more money on fuel these days in part because adult men and women on average are at least 24 pounds heavier than their counterparts were in 1960, a study has found.

Toda ...[text shortened]... tion causes? There would of course be exceptions for those who can't help being overweight.
I wonder if the change in the weight of the cars themselves were considered in the study...

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Originally posted by 7ate9
You don't really know what you are talking about... do you?
Maybe not, but at least my question was clear.

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Originally posted by mancityboy
The question is:

Should fat people be taxed more to pay for the increased polution that their extra fuel consumption causes?
They could work off their debt to society by walking on a treadmill linked to a generator until they are lean and socially acceptable.

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Originally posted by Bosse de Nage
They could work off their debt to society by walking on a treadmill linked to a generator until they are lean and socially acceptable.
Now you're talking!!

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I was thinking we could take the energy directly via liposuction and fat burning engines.

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Originally posted by AThousandYoung
I was thinking we could take the energy directly via liposuction and fat burning engines.
Only for those who are too fat to walk without assistance. Into the suck-tanks with them toot sweet...

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Originally posted by Bosse de Nage
They could work off their debt to society by walking on a treadmill linked to a generator until they are lean and socially acceptable.
Good idea! Or perhaps... assuming that cars use less fuel going downhill with fat people in, we could get them to stand at the tops of hills on the side of the road, and get in passing cars. At the bottom of the hill they must jump out, and RUN! back up the hill to do it again.

Repeat until thin.

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Originally posted by twiceaknight
Repeat until thin.
The possibilities are endless...No longer would we have to endure televised atrocities like "The Biggest Loser"...

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