A mere drop in the bucket compared to what was been given to UAW/Government Motors. Besides, we break even after 10 years ... unless you consider the time value of money.
-----Original Message----- From: mercedes-boun...@okiebenz.com [mailto:mercedes-boun...@okiebenz.com] On Behalf Of Kaleb C. Striplin Sent: Friday, September 11, 2009 20:54 To: Banned List; mercedes Mailing List Subject: [MBZ] [Fwd:] Clunker math] from another list -------- Original Message -------- Subject: [db] Clunker math Date: Fri, 11 Sep 2009 14:48:49 -0700 (PDT) From: diesel john <dieselj...@comcast.net> To: undisclosed-recipients: ; got this info from a friend... 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 is 224 million gallons/year. That equates to a bit over 5 million barrels of oil. 5 million barrels of oil is about 1/4 of one day's US consumption. And, 5 million barrels of oil costs about $350 million dollars at $75/bbl. So, tax payers contributed $3 billion to save $350 million. And 80% of the auto profits went to foreign countries. just the facts (as they were passed on to me...) - does anyone in leadership do the math before they make decisions? john also some stats on 9/11: http://wagoneers.com/MISC/History/11_September_2001-the-loss_the-cost.txt ----- ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Snohomish, Washington -o|||||o- where Jeeps don't rust, they mold http://AMSOIL.com/redirect.cgi?zo=283461 http://creationwiki.org http://johnmeister.com http://wagoneers.com http://fotomeister.us ------------------------------------------------------------------------ -- Kaleb C. Striplin/Claremore, OK 95 E300, 92 500SEL, 92 300SD, 92 300E 4Matic, 91 300D, 91 300E, 89 560SEL, 87 300SDL x2, 85 380SE 5.0 Euro, 85 190D, 84 190D, 84 300D euro manny, 81 240D, 80 240D, 76 240D, 76 300D, http://www.okiebenz.com -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: <http://okiebenz.com/pipermail/mercedes_okiebenz.com/attachments/20090911/a4 18e098/attachment.html> -------------- next part -------------- An embedded and charset-unspecified text was scrubbed... Name: Attached Message Part URL: <http://okiebenz.com/pipermail/mercedes_okiebenz.com/attachments/20090911/a4 18e098/attachment.pl> _______________________________________ http://www.okiebenz.com For new and used parts go to www.okiebenz.com To search list archives http://www.okiebenz.com/archive/ To Unsubscribe or change delivery options go to: http://okiebenz.com/mailman/listinfo/mercedes_okiebenz.com _______________________________________ http://www.okiebenz.com For new and used parts go to www.okiebenz.com To search list archives http://www.okiebenz.com/archive/ To Unsubscribe or change delivery options go to: http://okiebenz.com/mailman/listinfo/mercedes_okiebenz.com