06-11-2004, 02:52 AM
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Cost of fat air passengers takes off
Telegraph Article
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Fat Americans are eating INTO phpbb_the US air industry's bottom line, forcing planes to consume ever more fuel to transport their bulk.
The average weight of Americans rose by 10lb during the 1990s and what a new survey called this "additional adiposity" caused airlines to use a further 350 million gallons of fuel in 2000, at a cost of £149 million. This is hitting the environment with an extra 3.8 million tons of carbon dioxide being released INTO phpbb_the atmosphere.
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