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Originally Posted by Arragonis
Mine uses less fuel than yours 
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Hrmm.....
A 180lb male shoveling snow for an hour burns about 500 calories per hour (reference from sparkpeople.com)... a Jr bacon cheeseburger is $1.29 (reference from a local Wendy's) and is 400 calories (reference from Wendy's.com)... so it's $1.61 per hour. The average snow shovel holds about 4/10 cubic foot of snow. A cubic foot of snow weighs 15 lbs (both referenced from
http://dailyperk.perkstreet.com/how-to-shovel-snow/). So each shovel will remove about 6lbs of snow which means it would take 334 shovel fulls to move one ton of show. If the man can shovel 1 scoop for ever 4 seconds it would take approximately 22 minutes to move one ton of snow. This means if the person worked one hour straight taking 4 seconds to remove one ton of snow that person would move 2.72 tons of snow per hour.
An average 4 stroke snow blower can run about 3.5 hours on 1.5 gallons of fuel... which means at lets say $4 per gallon fuel would mean it would use $1.71 worth of fuel per hour. That snow blower can move approximately 35 tons of snow per hour.
(Reference from powerequipment.Honda.com)
This means the human would have to work 12.87 hours to move the same amount of snow. In theory if the human could do that work and consume only jr bacon cheese burgers it would cost $20.72..... plus the person would die of exhaustion...which is bad.