Hitting the late-afternoon lull at work, I browsed around online and checked my personal E-mail, which returned me to the main portal page. On it, I saw the following headline: "Expanding waistlines add to pain at the pump".
I admit my morbid curiosity prompted me to click on the link and read the story. Now, I must preface this by saying that I myself am part of the American epidemic of the expanding waistline. Not that I'm 1,000-pound Maury or Dr. Phil material, but definitely a little chunkier than I'd like to be. So I was initially hesitant to tackle this controversial, yet inescapably apparent reality.
But I'll go a step further than the article. I would like to posit that the growth in the girth and poundage of automobiles has increased correspondingly along with the girth and poundage of Americans. "But," you say, "foreign cars have gotten bigger too." And right you would be. But let us not forget what the single largest automobile market in the world is. That's right: the good ol' U.S. of A. So even though Hans, Franz, and Koji may not be part of this epidemic, their paychecks are in large part dependent on catering to our corpulent, self-indulgent tastes and buying habits.
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