This is similar to hitting two birds with one stone.  Parker’s advice is not without merit, mind you.  Since he has long investigated policies on overweight penalized passengers on airplanes as one of the causes of fuel’s rising costs.   Since then, he has been curious on the particular effect drivers who are overweight have on their trucks and car’s gas.  He has concluded that ten percent is lost on each gallon of gas bought. 

The big issue is not just about bigness but on how being frugal could also mean being healthy.   The World Health Organization agrees on Parker’s conclusions and have estimated that about 30% of adult Americans or approximately sixty million people are actually obese. 

The logic is that – as also based on research done by Illinois Commonwealth University and Virginia Commonwealth University – every pound of extra body weight inside vehicle’s of today is equal to needing over 39 million gallons of extra gas every year.

This is a need that could be afforded to be decreased while at the same time benefiting obese people by motivating them to lose weight for a whole variety of relevant reasons both ecological, environmental, financial, biological and even vanity-related.  Saving on fuel is also the same as saving yourself in the long run from health and financial woes.  For more information, check out eMediaWire.

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