truck carbon footprint 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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