A Healthcare “clunker”
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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 of one day’s US consumption.
And, 5 million barrels of oil costs about $350million 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!
September 10th, 2009 at 4:24 pm
Just to add to the subject…
Just who received this “benefit”? Not the unemployed – they can’t buy a new car. Not the poor – they can’t buy a new car. The beneficiaries of the Cash for Clunkers were the well-off who could already afford new car payments and, the real beneficiaries – Obama’s good buddies, the auto labor unions. It’s what you call a payoff to big labor.