Had a cheeseburger lately?

Maybe you had a celebratory cookout on Monday in the shadow of the eclipse? Or maybe you took the night off from cooking and went out to a favorite restaurant and ordered a big juicy cheeseburger with lettuce, tomato, and pickles. Yum.

Shift gears with me here, literally. There are about 270 million private vehicles on the road in the USA and over the past several years, SUVs have accounted for about 53% of new car sales. That’s a lot of SUVs. Reportedly that is because people feel safer in SUVs than sedans and pickups. Perhaps you didn’t realize it — and it would be strange if you did — but there is a relationship between an SUV and that cheeseburger you ate. Can you guess what it is?

A single cheeseburger has a carbon footprint of eight pounds of carbon dioxide. What that means, according to The Center for Sustainable........

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