Going the Wrong Way
Posted by Editor in Losungen, tags: americans, cars, detroit, drivers, fat people, gas problems, general motors, health care, obama, obesity, oil dependency, saudis, weight problems“The higher mileage and emissions standards set by the Obama administration on Tuesday, which begin to take effect in 2012 and are to be achieved by 2016, will transform the American car and truck fleet.”
We’ll see. While it may be politically expedient to scapegoat the auto industry into re-writing the laws of physics, instead, we stand to be better served if we simply take responsibility and stop – serving ourselves!
According to the CDC (Centers for Disease Control), two-thirds of all Americans over the age of twenty are overweight, and one-third are obese.
Overweight means you are twenty pounds heavier than where you should be, and obese means any weight over twenty 20 pounds.
The average American (all age groups) is twenty-five pounds heavier than he/she was in 1960, with the trend going the wrong way – up!
The year 2016 is within sight, and while I can appreciate certain engineering efficiencies, I’m drawing a blank in visualizing a car designed to defy gravity. Today’s 2,000 pound Mini Cooper, or like, will indeed be a marvel and salvation of mankind when adapted to move (at all) with half it’s weight in payload – an average family of four.
The paucity of which we dedicate toward solving solvable problems never ceases to amaze, and please consider this. The equivalent of each overweight to obese driver in America losing twenty pounds, is the same as the elimination of 18,000,000 drivers from the streets. Does anybody see the savings?
2016. Seven years is plenty of time.
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