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Obesity driving up gas usage

By Greg Kline
Wednesday October 25, 2006

If you need another reason for making that New Year's resolution to lose some weight – again – here it is: dropping the pounds might save you money at the gas pump.

Turns out, those people who say Americans are "gas hogs" may not be far from the truth, some numbers crunching by University of Illinois researchers indicates.

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