Well, if your home is in Nebraska, filling a 500-gallon propane tank (300 gallons if you are at 20% capacity and fill it to 80%) will cost you $562 at current average propane prices per gallon, compared to $397 last year.
Treating obesity and obesity-related conditions costs billions of dollars a year. By one estimate, the U.S. spent $190 billion on obesity-related health care expenses in 2005-double previous estimates.
The total direct cost of obesity in Canada in 1997 was estimated to be between $2.1 billion to $11 billion (or between $64.4 and $343.4 per capita) ~ 2.4% to 12% of the total health care expenditures.