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Originally Posted by TheRealBubba View Post
Ummm, the marginal increase in metabolic cost results in more CO_2 than driving... I'm going to need to see some well-justified quantitative analysis for that assertion.
No, not the metabolic CO2 emissions. It takes more CO2 to farm food, ship food, store food, make water, have heating, etc etc etc.... than driving a car.

I remember some random biology book saying how cars are 70% efficient, which is "much more" than the human body. Obviously that is wrong, but a car IS more efficient than a human in getting from point A to B. There was this experiment I did in which you had to pedal a bike to light a flashlight, which a simple AA can do a LOT better. But w/e.

It was a JOKE.... I think it is great to ride a bike, because if you read closely, I said that the energy is spent on you anyway, it just gets converted into fat. (So less fat AND save the environment)
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