The Cost Of Obesity To Fuel Use? One Billion Gallons A Year

That's before you consider the additional cost to each invidivual consumer--springs, shocks, clutches, torque converters, brakes and more have to work harder with more weight on board, and be replaced sooner. Arguably some of that would offset the negative costs to the economy in terms of increased business for the parts industry, but there's still the green issue of millions of wasted gallons to consider...

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