Carmakers widen seats

for wider ... seats. USAToday.com reports: If you gorged at the holiday buffet, don't worry: You'll still fit in your car.

As Americans grow heftier, automakers are making seats wider, adding more space to interiors and using bigger virtual mannequins to help design vehicles.

Domestic automakers say they already had seats for increasingly rotund motorists. Now foreign brands are catching up.

Maybe the car manufacturers should make the seats smaller to offer an incentive to American car buyers. Or maybe we need an administration that gives a shit to look into why Americans are getting fatter. Why involve the government in this? I mean isn't the problem that people are just eating too damn much? Well, when was the last time you read a food label? Some stories I've read suggest that one potential cause of this obesity problem is the increased use of fructose instead of sugar in processed foods. It seems that fructose has been increasingly used as a sweetener because "trade restrictions on sugar imports under a tariff rate quota system have increased the cost of the common table sugar sucrose", and "[t]he result has been such high costs for table sugar that liquid beverage makers responded by switching to using high fructose corn syrup as a sweetener." There you have it. Government policy, coupled with the corporate bottom line, may be making us fatter--and unhealthy. Oh, and most of the corn and almost all of the soybeans grown in this country are genetically modified. Bon appetit!

Comments

[Joe Schmoe]

Why isn't the government getting involved you ask? Because it takes being in a persistent vegetative state, before the preznit cuts his vacation short on your account.
What brought this on was a CNN 10-minute "Year in review" special that I watched today at work, in the lounge. What a fucking circus that was! They showed bugeyed DeLay spitting saliva, they showed our Leader stepping out of the Asshole Carrier One with a countenance of false concern -- you get the picture.
They completely sounded like they were on the "Let Terri Live" bandwagon.
No mention of the fact that her husband Michael was the only sane person in the focal point of all the insanity. No mention that the autopsy revealed that she indeed was in PVS, despite all the pro-lifer nutcases...
They made this poor woman a political football. And it was the same President who signed dozens of death sentences, that all of a sudden was in "Thou shalt not kill" mode.
How do you say "hypocrisy" in Wingnuttese?

[gmb]

How do you say "hypocrisy" in wingnuttese? Um, my guess is that they would define it as something said by a democrat (or maybe they would use the "bad" word liberal). Truth is, the spin and bullshit seems to only enforce the views of the believers. Everyone else is getting it. I just wish a lot more people got it earlier than they have. I am still looking forward to 2006: DeLay--he's in trouble, Abramoff will be the gift that keeps on giving, there is more coming from the Duke Cunningham/MZM scandal, the NSA wiretapping investigation (which may happen), the Plame outing and, I hope, Rove's eventual indictment.....the list goes on. Here's hoping we have a fabulous November 2006. GMB