Little Healthcare/Cash for Clunkers Humor

Not much to post today but the following

Clunker  Math
The person who calculated this bit of information is now and has been a professor at The University of West Virginia in Morgantown, West Virginia for the last forty some years.
A clunker that travels 12,000 miles a year at 15 mpg uses 800 gallons of gas a year.

The government claims 700,000 clunkers have been replaced so that’s 224 million gallons saved per year.

A vehicle  that travels 12,000 miles a year at 25 mpg uses 480 gallons of gas a year.

So, the average Cash for Clunkers transaction will reduce gasoline consumption by 320 gallons per year.

That  equates to a bit over 5 million barrels of oil~5 million barrels is about 5 hours worth of US consumption.

More importantly, 5 million barrels of oil at $70 per barrel costs about $350 million dollars.

So, the government paid $3 billion of our tax dollars to save $350 million....

We  spent $8.57 for every $1.00 we saved.
 I’m pretty sure they will do a better job with our health care, though.