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Old 09-10-2009, 02:51 PM
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You know that trivia isn't so trivial when you learn that if every American lost only 1 (one) pound, it would be an annual savings of just over 39 million gallons of gas!*


*From the research of Dr. Sheldon Jacobson
University of IL at Urbana-Champaign. ca. 2005

I just found an article about this research by Jacobson:
http://news.illinois.edu/news/06/1024auto.html
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