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| Monthly cost of the US occupation of Iraq [US Department of Defense] ( REF ) |
US $4.1 Billion |
| Revenue from Iraqi oil sales that the CPA could not account for, according to a 2005 audit [Special Inspector General for Iraq Reconstruction (Arlington, Va.)] ( REF ) |
US $8.8 Billion |
| Average amount the Bush Administration has spent per year on contracts with P.R. firms [Committee on Government Reform, US House of Representatives] ( REF ) |
US $62.5 Million |
| Amount the Department of Homeland Security spent in 2005 directing research at US universities [US Department of Homeland Security] ( REF ) |
US $45 Million |
| Ratio of the estimated U.S. cost of ratifying the Kyoto Protocol to the cost of Iraq war so far ( REF ) |
1:1 |
| Minimum number of ExxonMobil-funded groups that have disputed mainstream scientific findings on climate change ( REF ) |
31 |
| Days in 1970 that Northern Alaska was cold enough to operate oil-drilling machinery without damaging the tundra ( REF) |
213 |
| Days in 2002 that it was cold enough ( REF ) |
106 |
| Ratio of the amount of energy used in producing gasoline itself to the amount yielded when it is burned ( REF ) |
6:5 |
| Ratio of the amount of energy used in producing corn ethanol to the amount yielded when it is used ( REF ) |
1:1 |
| CO2 produced each year by a jumbo jet making a round trip trans-atlantic flight daily ( REF ) |
210,000 Tonnes |
| Factor by which Hummer sales in April, 2006 exceeded those a year earlier ( REF ) |
3 |
| Average number or calories of oil that are used to make each calorie of food Americans eat ( REF ) |
7 |
| Days after Katrina hit that Dick Cheney's office ordered an electric company to restore power to two oil pipelines ( REF ) |
2 |
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