Present Financial Realities
¥How much do we spend a day buying crude oil?
¥ We presently import ~10 million barrels of oil per day
¥ At ~$100/barrel, $1B leaves the U.S. each day
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¥How much do we spend each day on the Iraq War?
¥ Presently $10B/month = $330M/day in direct military
¥ Others estimate $720M/day in long term costs
¥      with no end in sight
¥Iraq funding is sufficient to fund
¥a major new climate observing system or
¥a new mission to Mars
¥EVERY DAY