Present
Financial Realities
¥How
much do we spend a day buying crude oil?
We
presently import ~10 million
barrels of oil per dayAt
~$100/barrel, $1B leaves the U.S. each day¥How
much do we spend each day on the Iraq War?
Presently
$10B/month = $330M/day in direct military 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