Comments on: Global Warming and Obesity. Is Driving the New Smoking? http://www.thetruthaboutcars.com/global-warming-and-obesity-is-driving-the-new-smoking/ The Truth About Cars is dedicated to providing candid, unbiased automobile reviews and the latest in auto industry news. Wed, 25 Nov 2009 00:00:35 -0500 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.6 hourly 1 By: guyincognito http://www.thetruthaboutcars.com/global-warming-and-obesity-is-driving-the-new-smoking/comment-page-1/#comment-66196 guyincognito Tue, 14 Aug 2007 16:47:19 +0000 http://www.thetruthaboutcars.com/?p=4708#comment-66196 Actually if you study the data you will notice a correlation between increasing obesity and increasing global temperatures, therefore obesity causes global warming not cars. Actually if you study the data you will notice a correlation between increasing obesity and increasing global temperatures, therefore obesity causes global warming not cars.

]]> By: Johnny Canada http://www.thetruthaboutcars.com/global-warming-and-obesity-is-driving-the-new-smoking/comment-page-1/#comment-66058 Johnny Canada Mon, 13 Aug 2007 21:15:29 +0000 http://www.thetruthaboutcars.com/?p=4708#comment-66058 Guilt. It's the oldest trick in the Communist playbook , and now the eco-hippies and EU are running with it.....make people feel guilty for their lifestyle and very existence. Once we swallow that one, the rest comes very easy. Comrade. Guilt. It’s the oldest trick in the Communist playbook , and now the eco-hippies and EU are running with it…..make people feel guilty for their lifestyle and very existence. Once we swallow that one, the rest comes very easy. Comrade.

]]> By: carlos.negros http://www.thetruthaboutcars.com/global-warming-and-obesity-is-driving-the-new-smoking/comment-page-1/#comment-65997 carlos.negros Mon, 13 Aug 2007 17:01:25 +0000 http://www.thetruthaboutcars.com/?p=4708#comment-65997 Certainly no one would dispute that lousy seats increase the chance of poor posture and back/leg pain on long trips. I think some cars may also make it easier to have a big rear end (the driver not the car). If the seats are big and wide versus ass-hugging, it may send the message that it is okay to look like Rush Limbaugh. On the other hand, cars that break down often, such as Saabs, may do us an inadvertent favor by forcing us to push them or hoof it home along some forsaken back road in areas occupied by hillbilly cannibals. Just the fear that notion provokes is enough to give your heart some exercise. Certainly no one would dispute that lousy seats increase the chance of poor posture and back/leg pain on long trips. I think some cars may also make it easier to have a big rear end (the driver not the car). If the seats are big and wide versus ass-hugging, it may send the message that it is okay to look like Rush Limbaugh.

On the other hand, cars that break down often, such as Saabs, may do us an inadvertent favor by forcing us to push them or hoof it home along some forsaken back road in areas occupied by hillbilly cannibals. Just the fear that notion provokes is enough to give your heart some exercise.

]]> By: edgett http://www.thetruthaboutcars.com/global-warming-and-obesity-is-driving-the-new-smoking/comment-page-1/#comment-65956 edgett Mon, 13 Aug 2007 14:08:36 +0000 http://www.thetruthaboutcars.com/?p=4708#comment-65956 I saw a wonderful bumper sticker several years ago: "If you think second hand smoke is bad, take a hit of THIS", with an arrow pointing at the car's exhaust. I doubt if Ralph Nader actually started the "Nanny State", but he certainly helped it along with the intimation that it was GM's fault that Corvair drivers did not learn how to handle a rear-engined car. Thus it must be the car's fault that people are not exercising enough. No one would dare blame the all-pervasive idea that we all need to move faster in order to bring home the bacon, or that we have collectively scared the bejesus out of parents by painting a world in which rogue priests, kidnappers, terrorists and pedophiles are lurking behind every bush just waiting to grab little Mary or Jimmy. Or god forbid that we study the effects of propagandizing the population through advertising to eat everything in sight. It is "for our own good" that we all wait, sheeplike, in airport queues in a vain attempt to eliminate aircraft hijackings. And it will be "for our own good" that we prevent parents from driving the last mile or so to school. I saw a wonderful bumper sticker several years ago: “If you think second hand smoke is bad, take a hit of THIS”, with an arrow pointing at the car’s exhaust. I doubt if Ralph Nader actually started the “Nanny State”, but he certainly helped it along with the intimation that it was GM’s fault that Corvair drivers did not learn how to handle a rear-engined car. Thus it must be the car’s fault that people are not exercising enough.

No one would dare blame the all-pervasive idea that we all need to move faster in order to bring home the bacon, or that we have collectively scared the bejesus out of parents by painting a world in which rogue priests, kidnappers, terrorists and pedophiles are lurking behind every bush just waiting to grab little Mary or Jimmy. Or god forbid that we study the effects of propagandizing the population through advertising to eat everything in sight.

It is “for our own good” that we all wait, sheeplike, in airport queues in a vain attempt to eliminate aircraft hijackings. And it will be “for our own good” that we prevent parents from driving the last mile or so to school.

]]> By: NICKNICK http://www.thetruthaboutcars.com/global-warming-and-obesity-is-driving-the-new-smoking/comment-page-1/#comment-65953 NICKNICK Mon, 13 Aug 2007 13:51:23 +0000 http://www.thetruthaboutcars.com/?p=4708#comment-65953 fine. i won't drive in your restaurant or in front of your baby. fine. i won’t drive in your restaurant or in front of your baby.

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