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A human walking is absurdly efficient, as anyone who's ever tried to outrun a bad diet can tell you. Running or walking a mile burns ~100 extra calories relative to sitting on your couch. Unless you're putting active effort into not doing so, most diets fluctuate by far more than that.



Sure, but it is also true that food that is healthy for people is an absurdly expensive form of energy compared to gasoline.


If we make free the largest costs of gas, greenhouse gas emissions.


Even if we count the cost of the co2 emissions: it probably takes more petroleum products to grow the food for the walking delivery workers than it takes to fuel the delivery truck.




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