Re: Dollars and cents.

Bob Eldred wrote: 
"Spectator." <richardcheswardiine2@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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I was listening to the radio the other day and they mentioned the total

cost (in dollars, not lives) of the war in Iraq being around $170B so
far.  Previously I had been listening to Air Americas ecotalk and had
heard about a company (MGE) that sells wind power so I decided to pull
some data together and this is what I found.


MGE pays about $850,000 per windmill


The US has spent $170,000,000,000 protecting our oil interests in Iraq


The US could purchase about 200,000 wind turbines for that money.


Each turbine puts out about 660KW


The average power draw of a US home is about 1.2KW


According to the US Census Bureau there are about 116,000,000 homes in
the US


200,000 turbines * 660 KW is about 133,000,000 KW


133,000,000KW / 1.2KW per home is about 109,000,000


109,000,000 is about 94% of the homes in the US powered polution free
for what we have spent in Iraq to date.


See my data and sources in the followin spread***:
http://www.wperry.net/WindPowe­r.xls



Iraq is one of the stupidest things the US has done in years especially
since it is obviously turning before our eyes into an Islamic theocracy
allied with Iran. There are so many ways that money could have been better
spent. I have yet to figure out what the American people are suposed to get
out of Iraq? Are we safer? Do we get oil? Is it creating jobs? Is it
creating wealth? Does it get to the bottom of 9/11? Does it reduce
terrorism? Just what do we get for our billions? As far as I can tell, not
much, It certainly is not worth the loss of life and the money wasted is
criminal.
Bob



Not stupid at all for the rich and powerfull interests which use

American tax dollars and military lives to control the area for

hydrocarbon sales to Europe, India and China.

The former southern republics of the USSR are sitting on a s__t

pile of hydrocarbon resources, pipelines are being constructed

to ship it to Turkey and Packistan, Unocal is heavily involved

and who wants to buy it ?

These people and companies only need the US and British taxpayers

to fund the invasion of Iran.
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