Drive-through visits add calories, waste gas.(Main)

Byline: DERRICK Z. JACKSON

National Public Radio, which Republicans love to flog for "liberal bias," began a discussion last week about gasoline conservation with: "When you go to McDonald's or Wendy's, park the car, get out, go in and buy your hamburger instead of sitting at the window, letting it idle."

How American. Get out of the car to save gas. I figure if that happened on the "liberal airwaves," it demonstrates how junk-food marketeers have conquered the national psyche. This is ironic because the majority of major fast-food chains, including McDonald's, Wendy's, Burger King, Coca-Cola, Pizza Hut, Domino's, KFC, Taco Bell, and their lobbying arms, the …