gasoline price Archives – The Green Optimistic green tech news, since 2008 Thu, 17 Feb 2011 20:51:38 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=7.0 2667534 Fat People Account for Gasoline Price Increases and Bigger Carbon Footprint, Study Says https://www.greenoptimistic.com/fat-people-carbon-footprint-20110217/ https://www.greenoptimistic.com/fat-people-carbon-footprint-20110217/#comments Thu, 17 Feb 2011 20:51:38 +0000 https://www.greenoptimistic.com/?p=17182 A study of the Resources for the Future (RFF) institute from a few years ago (2009, more exactly) revealed the impact that obesity has on a man's carbon footprint. It showed that even a 10 percent increase in the rate of overweight and obesity among the population affected the miles per gallon by 2.5%, in the bad direction. This, in turn, created a 30 cent increase in gasoline prices.

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]]> https://www.greenoptimistic.com/fat-people-carbon-footprint-20110217/feed/ 1 17182 The MicroFueler – cheap ethanol energy source at your door https://www.greenoptimistic.com/the-microfueler-cheap-ethanol-energy-source-at-your-door-20080511/ https://www.greenoptimistic.com/the-microfueler-cheap-ethanol-energy-source-at-your-door-20080511/#comments Sun, 11 May 2008 04:47:12 +0000 https://www.greenoptimistic.com/?p=335 I guess everybody’s complaining about the skyrocketing oil prices these days. This trend is expected to be worse, and it’s expected to reduce the people’s gasoline consumption by big figures. That can be to the benefit of the environment, on one hand, but on the other hand it can be terrifying for the general public, […]

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