1743 Dino Gas

Interesting stories in the news lately about size and gas.
First, a recent report indicated that Americans are burning far more fuel in their vehicles than they need too. The simple reason is they're carrying around too much extra weight.
One of the first tricks the hyper-miler MPG people use to increase mileage efficiency is to remove extra weight from their cars. You know, spare tires, chains you don't need in your trunk in the summer, backseats full of fastfood trash and happy meal toys.
A simple calculation really, more weight to move around means more fuel consumed moving it. So I guess it's no surprise the recent study concluded Americans are burning 1 billion additional gallons of gas a year because of---obesity. That's around $4 billion at today's pump prices.
That's what we get for being as big as donkeys. With jackrabbit starts and obesity, hauling ass really has a price.
One can only hope this will finally help us solve the obesity epidemic. At the very least we should diet for national security, and ease our dependence on foreign oil, if not French Fry oil.
Other big things once had a gas problem too. The dinosaurs. Recent research has indicated that a big cause of global warming during dinosaur days was gas emissions. Except they weren't from vehicle exhaust. They were from dinosaur exhaust.
Yep, dinosaur flatulence, not unlike the methane today's domestic cattle expel, may have led to Jurassic warming. And while the dinos were consuming plants, their methane helped other plants thrive, then lay down to form more petroleum products.
Your tank of gas today could have been caused by dino's gas way back when. Thank you ex-rulers of the earth. Thank you Flatulaceratops. Thank you Fartosurus. And thank you Passagasladon.
You give new meaning to the word extinct.
America ya gotta love it.