War Is a Waste

• Cost of US air war: $295 million a day.

• Cost of US ground war: $520 million a day.

• Estimated direct costs to US of a war in the Middle East: $50 billion.

• Estimated indirect costs to US of war in the Middle East: $190 billion.

• Estimated cost of damage to Iraq: $200 billion.

• Bombs dropped on Iraq and Kuwait: 141,921 tons.

• Bombs dropped on Dresden in WWII: 3421.

• Scuds dropped on Israel and Saudi Arabia: 11 tons.

• Gallons of gasoline consumed by one M1 Abrams tank per hour: 252.

• Gallons needed to support one tank in an armored division for one day: 1724.

• Number of times a Chevy Geo could circle the Earth on the same amount of fuel: 3.5

• Gallons of fuel consumed by one F-4 Phantom fighter-bomber in one hour: 1680.

• Number of flying tankers needed to keep six B-2 bombers in the air: 6.

• Gallons per day consumed by USS Independence at top speed: 150,000.

• Gallons per day consumed by USS Independence at rest: 100,000.

• Fuel consumed by ground forces during the "100-hour War": 8 million gallons.

• Carbon dioxide added to Greenhouse Effect by "100-hour War": 80,000 tons.

• Carbon dioxide added to Greenhouse Effect by burning oil wells: 100,000 tons a day.

• Oil savings squandered by Reagan-Bush roll-backs of auto-efficiency standards (in barrels per day): 1.9 million.

• Current energy savings per year from energy efficient improvements: $150 billion.

• Percentage of Energy Department budget directed toward nuclear weapons in 1990: 19.

• Percentage of Energy Department budget directed toward nuclear weapons in 1990: 59.

• Reduction of federal funding for renewable energy between 1981 and 1989: 90 percent.

• Percentage of US energy needs provided by nuclear power: 4.8.

• Percentage of US energy needs provided by renewable energy (wind, solar, hudro, biomass): 5.7.

• Percentage of US energy needs the Department of Energy estimates could be met with renewables: 75.

• Ratio of Americans opposed to nuclear power (according to George Bush's political pool): 60.

• Energy sources receiving major government subsidies under Bush's National Energy Strategy: Oil and nuclear.

• US ambassador's reply to the Senate when asked if she warned Saddam not to invade Kuwait: "I did not."

• Number of nations in UN that voted for US use of force: 11.

• Largest contributor of combat forces to Gulf War after US and Britain: Puerto Rico.

• President's reply to reporter who asked if he would send his own children to fight: Evaded question.

• Fate of Saddam Hussein's oldest son: Joined Iraqi army.

• Fate of George Bush's oldest son: Became $120,000-a-year consultant to Harkin Oil, which was awarded exclusive oil-drilling rights in Bahrain.

• Single greatest cause of US deaths during war (28 killed in Saudi barracks): Patriot missile malfunction (intercept).

• Amount of oil used to manufacture one body bag: Three cups.