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/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 1/4 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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