America ranks #1 in Personal Energy Conservation (laziness)
One of President Obama’s campaign promises was to address the energy crisis. It’s one of his top priorities just after healthcare reform, job creation, education reform and improving his Baseball Opening Day Ceremonial Curve Ball (needs a lot of work).
I beamed with pride when I read that on one front, America is making amazing progress: Energy conservation. According to a recent survey by the widely respected and completely unheard of news publication, The Daily Beast, the United States now ranks #1 in the entire world in personal energy conservation. Okay, if you want to get technical, it actually called the USA the laziest nation on the planet. But I say it’s all in your perspective. Personally, I would offer my American countrymen a high five but I don’t want to have to get up out of my chair. Turns out, according to this report, we Americans rank:
- Number one in per person daily caloric intake
- Number one in number of trips to fast food restaurants per year
- Number one in per person hours of daily television viewing and
- Dead last in the amount of time spent exercising per day, or as I prefer to think of it, first in personal energy conservation!
