Talk About "Gassy" Food

From Science Daily:

Weight Gain Of U.S. Drivers Has Increased Nation's Fuel Consumption (link)

Science Daily — 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.

Hmmmm...maybe Michael Moore has been the one conspiring with big oil interests all along.