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Drive Throughs Persuasive Speech

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Drive throughs are a leading cause in air problems such as air pollution. The big debate now-a-days is whether drive throughs being ban or not being ban. Drive throughs are leading causes for horrible air quality, waste a lot of gas in the world, and the also cause obesity. On the hand other they are good on the marketing side of things for business. Although drive throughs are very useful it also causes some of the biggest problems in the world and atmosphere. Frist of all, drive throughs can lead to a waste of a lot of gas. According to Trapped in the Drive-Through and Wasting Gas, "In 2007, a California state science fair student estimated that vehicles idling at California’s 8,500 drive-through businesses consumed 32 million gallons of gas." This shows instead of wasting your gas on meaningful cause we chose to waste it on drive throughs. Also, it states "Just 10 minutes of idling at the drive-thru window per day adds up to an average of 22 gallons of gasoline a year — at current pump prices. That’s $80 a year on wasted gas." This shows that instead of wasting gas by driving ten minutes on the interstate people decide to sit in drive throughs and basically throw money out the …show more content…

According to Occupy the Drive Thru, '' Nearly 1/3 of children in the united states eat fast food regularly and there is a close relation between the fast food restaurants and obesity. " This shows that kids who eat fast food more than others are most likely to have obesity than ones who don't. Also, according to medical daily, " Kids that grow up in places where fast food is readily accessible and are more likely obese. " As a result of kids living near fast food places there is a higher chance of them becoming obese than ones who are not living near a restaurant. In conclusion, unless you want a higher chance at obesity go to all the fast food/drive throughs you want that you live

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