Running on pure fat
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ACCORDING to the US Jo' r a. of Public Health, if all obesE Americans slimmed to theii proper weights the country would save the energy equivalent of 1300 billion gallons ol petrol. Having slimmed, they would conserve enough energy to run nearly a million cars a year.
Which manufacturer will be the first to produce a car to run on American rendered-down two-star blubber?
The Hawk's handembroidered horse trough (with bird-bath attachments) for the most specious pseudo-scientific claptrap of the year goes to Bruce Hannon and Timothyi
Lohman, who perpetrated it. '
One of the best ways of both reducing weight and saving fuel is, of course, to push the car. Fare-paying passengers who had to push their ailing coach uphill on Exmoor on a scorchin afternoon assured me that th exercise was highly beneficial t all but the temper. The operator, I gathered, was also to be cu down to size when his cus tomers found him.