Fat per gallon. Also: Putin's power play. Our God given rights. Plus more.
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POUNDING AWAY
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Re: Ralph R. Reiland's
Gas
Guzzlers
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p>Ralph Reiland's "Gas Guzzlers" commentary shows how these
intellectuals manipulate useless data for their own personal ends.
Professor Jacobson has calculated that overweight Americans use an
extra one billion gallons of fuel per year. But rather than
spending his time propounding such minutiae in order to keep more
grant money flowing his way (remember, "publish or perish!"),
perhaps the good professor could mention that our free-market,
capitalist economy naturally is becoming more efficient every year,
and that the most efficient energy technology in history -- nuclear
power -- is opposed by the same eggheads who crank out those
bottomless volumes of trumped-up "information".
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Steve Nikita
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Pittsfield, Massachusetts
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Professor Reiland should take a course to soften his hostile
attitude toward our nation's truck drivers. KFC and Pizza King have
little room for parking a vehicle 65 feet or longer, and almost all
truck stops provide healthy choices for those who eschew fatty
foods. The professor's guess at two milliondrivers is way off the
mark and I
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suggest he delve into further research. Fifty or five hundred fifty
pounds would make little difference in fuel mileage operating a
vehicle weighing up to 80,000 pounds. Heavy gross weight vehicles
average six miles per gallon, according to the figures compiled by
the American Trucking Association.
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John Strong
