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To: Road Walker who wrote (308017)	10/28/2006 8:12:28 AM
From: 10K a day	Respond to of 1571858

If u want govt statistics just make something up.

To: Road Walker who wrote (308017)	10/28/2006 8:35:13 AM
From: RetiredNow	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 1571858

Well, how about this instead. We know we consume 20 million barrels of oil per day (mbpd) and oil is at around $60 per barrel. Therefore, 20M * 365 * 60 = $438B per year spent on oil. All we need to do is reduce that consumption by 75% and we would only consume what we produce, which equals oil independence. Let's say a plug-in, flex-fuel, hybrid costs $30K and there are 150M cars in the us. It would cost $4.5T to replace them all. Let's say that everyone would replace their car naturally every 15 years. So the goal would be for the gov't to cover 50% of the replacement cost ($2.25T), so that in 15 years all cars on the road are plug-in, flex-fuel, hybrids that consume 75% less than cars today. I plugged all this in a spreadsheet and assumed a straightline conversion of normal cars to the new type of cars, so that by the end of 15 years, all cars were the new type. If the gov't covered 50% of the cost, here are the figures: Year 14: Breakeven Year 15: Cumulative Profit = $378B Year 20: Cumulative Profit = $2T Year 25: Cumulative Profit = $3.7T Year 35: Cumulative Profit = $6.9T Year 45: Cumulative Profit = $10.2T If the gov't covered 100% of the cost, here are the figures; Year 21: Breakeven Year 25: Cumulative Profit = $1.4T Year 35: Cumulative Profit = $4.7T Year 45: Cumulative Profit = $8.0T Again, looks like a no-brainer to me.

To: Road Walker who wrote (308017)	10/28/2006 9:25:21 AM
From: steve harris	Respond to of 1571858

dspace.udel.edu:8080/dspace/bitstream/19716/2455/1/GasPrices2006.pdf consumerfed.org You're welcome.

To: Road Walker who wrote (308017)	10/28/2006 3:09:37 PM
From: tejek	Respond to of 1571858

Sent money to this campaign yesterday. This guy is a conservative Democrat within a progressive skin. Its amazing how more money the GOP is able to raise. GOP eye on 3rd District House race By DON WALTON / Lincoln Journal Star In the surest sign the 3rd District congressional seat is up for grabs, the National Republican Congressional Committee may be poised to commit resources to the race. An NRCC spokesman declined Friday to confirm the committee has decided to air TV ads in what had been considered a safe Republican district. “There is nothing listed on the Federal Election Commission Web site now as expenditures,” NRCC spokesman Alex Burgos said by telephone from Washington. “Until that goes up, I can’t confirm anything.” If the GOP congressional committee enters the race in the final 10 days of the campaign, it would be confirmation that poll numbers have uncovered a tight struggle between Republican nominee Adrian Smith and Democratic nominee Scott Kleeb. The 69-county 3rd District seat had been considered safely Republican at the beginning of the campaign. Western and central Nebraska hasn’t elected a Democrat to the House since 1958, when Don McGinley won a single term. Kleeb, 31, a Dunning ranch hand with two post-graduate degrees from Yale, has raised more than $700,000, far more than any previous Democratic candidate in the district. Smith, 35, a real estate agent and two-term state senator from Gering, has raised more than $1.1 million. Republican Rep. Tom Osborne is leaving Congress in January after serving three terms. journalstar.com