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FW: FW: Interesting numbers
- From: Doug Daniel <dougdaniel50@xxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Fri, 11 Sep 2009 04:28:35 -0700 (PDT)
i found this and it makes about as much sense as the amount of taxes we have too pay ,,thought you'd all enjoy it
I guess I must be on the wrong page?
A vehicle at 15 mpg and 12,000 miles per year uses 800 gallons
a year of gasoline.
A vehicle at 25 mpg and 12,000 miles per year uses 480 gallons a
year.
So, the average "Cash for Clunkers" transaction will reduce US
gasoline consumption by 320 gallons per year.
They claim 700,000 vehicles ? so that's 224 million gallons / year.
That equates to a bit over 5 million barrels of oil.
5 million barrels of oil is about ? of one day's US consumption.
And, 5 million barrels of oil costs about $350 million
dollars at $70/bbl.
So, we all contributed to spending $3 billion to save $350 million.
How good a deal was that ???
They'll probably do a great job with health care though!!
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