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Message #320
From: FastFun
Date: November 17, 2007 03:17:11 PM

a sick graph!!!

 A sick graph of <a href='http://www.equitygroups.com/renewableenergy/index.html'>renewable energy</a> spending versus Iraq war spending

These figures are in millions. The source for energy R&D expenditures is from the National Council for Science and the Environment. Take a look here: http://www.ncseonline.org/Affiliates/Handbook/cms.cfm?id=904

Though the war in Iraq now costs about $120B a year, two authors (one a Nobel prize winner) estimates the total cost of this war exceeds 2 Trillion Dollars: http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article15499.htm

“Accrued liabilities for U.S. federal employees’ and veterans’ benefits now total $4.5 trillion. Indeed, our debt for veterans’ health and disability payments has risen by $228 billion in the past year alone…The Congressional Budget Office estimates that the interest payments on the money borrowed to finance the Iraq war will total $264 billion to $308 billion.”

That $2,000,000,000,000? Well, that amount of money could’ve built solar thermal plants here that would have provided energy for 2/3rds of our nation’s energy demand: http://www.solarpowerrocks.com/solar-politics/how-far-could-68b-go-in-securing-our-energy-independence-pretty-dam

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Someone please make us a logo. There’s an 8GB iPod in it for you if yours rocks. Have you seen ours? Right, cause we don’t have one, and if we made it ourselves, it would suck, not rock. We need help

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