--Posted By David Fine to <http://www.monochrom.at/english/2008/08/numbers-rock.htm>monochrom at 8/25/2008 11:14:00 PM
According to
<http://hosted.ap.org/dynamic/stories/G/GAS_PRICES_IMPACT?SITE=AP&SECTION=HOME&TEMPLATE=DEFAULT>this
article, rising gas prices in America are leading to a 22% decrease
in automobile deaths this year, or around 5,000 lives saved in a
year. That's almost a quarter of Iraqi
<http://www.iraqbodycount.org/analysis/numbers/2007/>civilian deaths
in 2007. The
<http://autos.msn.com/everyday/GasStations.aspx?m=1&l=1&zip=94118&x=17&y=10>average
cost for 1 Gallon (3.8 litres) of gasoline in San Francisco today is
the same as 83.8
<http://www.foodtimeline.org/foodfaq5.html#candybar>Hershey's
chocolate bars (1.5oz or 42.5g) in 1936, the year Jesse Owens upset
the reich by earning <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jesse_Owens>4
medals in the Berlin Olympics,
<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Michael_phelps>25% the number Michael
Phelps has earned in his career to date. The
<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gold_medal#Olympic_Games>gold content
of those medals is at least 72G,
<http://www.goldprice.org/gold-price-per-gram.html>worth USD
$1,092.96, or enough to buy 454.16 gallons of gasoline in San
Francisco. Assuming highway miles, that would get a person 15896
miles in a 2008
<http://www.ford.com/vehicles/vehicle-showroom/vehicledetail/ford-focus-2008>Ford
Focus, or 63.8% of the earth's circumference.
