Friday, September 18, 2009

New Blog: "The Young Reaganites Project"

Give Alex over at The Young Reaganites Project some hits. His new blog is up and running and I think it's going to be a good one. Alex is in the process of getting his juris doctorate here in the D/FW area. That's great! We need all the conservative attorneys we can get.

Here's a sneak peak:
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 clunker 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 ¼ of one day's US consumption.

And, 5 million barrels of oil costs about $350 million dollars at $75/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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