Correlation between gas prices & waist size?
Someone on another board mentioned that there's a correlation between gas prices and people's weight (Americans, obviously, since we're the only overweight people in the world with cars).
As prices went up, the average weight went down.
xampl
July 14th, 2007 11:05am
gas is like 50 cents gallon in Iran. I don't think they're abnormally fat.
strawdog sobriquet
July 14th, 2007 11:18am
So you walk?
trollop
July 14th, 2007 11:58am
>gas is like 50 cents gallon in Iran. I don't think
>they're abnormally fat.
It's rationed.
Colm
July 14th, 2007 1:25pm
It's only been rationed recently.
More sensible would be to tie discretionary income, existence of public transportation, percentage of wages spent on transport, % ownership of cars.
But yes, the more you walk, the thinner you are. Cities in the US with bad parking situations and good public transportation tend to have thinner women.
Practical Economist
July 14th, 2007 2:05pm
Yay for Red Ken and the congestion charge. He really just wants us to have thinner, fitter women to lust after.
Colm
July 14th, 2007 7:38pm
That explains Indianapolis, which has great parking and terrible public transport.
Aaron
July 15th, 2007 12:03pm