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...users. You cite some pretty staggering numbers about the amount of oil that it takes today to power a war. The best one is that an F-16 burns more fuel in an hour than the average American family uses in an entire year. And each gallon of fuel costs many more times the cost of fuel at your local gas station, given the cost of transporting [it]. It may end up costing $100 or more per gallon. When you think about the fact that every day in Iraq something like 1.5 million gallons of fuel are delivered by truck...
...have a vaccine we would use to prevent HIV? No," says Dr. Anthony Fauci, director of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases (NIAID), which picked up the bulk of the $105 million cost of the study. "But if it gives us enough information that would be helpful in the next steps toward development of a vaccine, then it's a successful trial...
Then come the tax breaks. The stimulus bill approved in February included an $8,000 tax credit for first-time home buyers - at a cost of about $14 billion for the year. That's set to expire, but there's talk in Congress of extending or even expanding it. A much bigger deal is the income tax deduction for mortgage interest paid - which has been with us as long as there's been an income tax - at a cost estimated by the Congressional Joint Committee on Taxation at $80 billion this year. The deduction for property taxes costs an additional...
...Catholic version of Teach for America, which trains college grads to work in underserved parochial schools. "We either reinvent ourselves or I don't see how we don't ultimately disappear from America's inner cities. The model upon which we were founded was so different, both from a cost and supply side...
...march on Washington, in 2000, ended in fiasco when money was stolen from march organizers and little follow-up occurred after the attendees left Washington. The organizers this year were determined to avoid those problems. The march was staged for just over $200,000 - about a quarter of the cost of the 2000 event - and Jones and other principals repeatedly gave out a number that they wanted marchers to text, which would automatically sign them up on a mailing list the organizers hope will be useful in all congressional districts...