My friend just bought an SUV and I want to create an article. I wonder if you, the reader, could help with some of the calculations related to civilians caught in conflict or other costs related to the indirect impacts of the use of gasoline. Could you suggest some relatively unknown (undefunded, overlooked but efficient and effective) groups that address the problems of refugees?



What is the impact of buying an SUV 15 miles per gallon, 750 gallons per year? Assume 11,000 miles of driving, approximately.

Democracy Bonds. Until there is such a thing as a bond to pay for the consequences of using oil, thinking and caring people can pay for their own cleanup. How? By sending funds to act to clean up their messes. If I use peanut butter and jelly to make a sandwich, I have jam on the knife, crumbs on the plate, table and floor and peanut butter stuck between my teeth. I have more to clean up than if I just drank a glass of water.

If I use an electric car powered by solar-electric charging of the batteries, my impact and demand for oil is much less. If my car runs on gasoline, I have to clean up my mess. What are the consequences of using gasoline??

Assume 10,000 homes are destroyed by US operations annually in Iraq and Afghanistan. Cost $20,000 per clean up to rebuild. = $200 million to replace homes and other amenities.

100,000 people killed or injured, $10,000 per incident = 1 billion

Total 1.2 billion annually. 100 million households, so $120 per home to go to CIVIC or other ?innocent victims? funds.

A Table of Consequences and (partial) Remedies

The following table lists consequences of the use of gasoline, followed by an estimated amount of the damage (granted that economics cannot fully account for losses endured by families), then divided by 100 million US households to arrive at a per-household ?self-tax? that gasoline-powered SUV owners in particular might want to consider imposing on themselves.

Consequence: Carbon dioxide from burning gasoline

Amount: 750 gallons x 20 pounds per gallon = 15,000 pounds or 7.5 tons of CO2 per year

Cost:25 cents per tree, 100 pounds per tree, 150 trees x 30 cents = $45 a year to plant-trees.org

Consequence: Soldiers kill and injure innocent civilians while protecting oil pipelines

Amount: _______ numbers? X $20,000 per incident x 300,000 incidents Divided by 100 million households, US gasoline users

Cost: $120 per household (see calculation below), covered by http://www.CIVICWorldwide.org

Consequence: US presence in Iraq and elsewhere causes refugees to flee

Amount: 3 million refugees (?) per year x $3,000 per refugee = 9 billion divided by 100 million US households

Cost: $90 per year per household in USA ? Americare.org or other organization?

Consequence: Continued use of gasoline does not build the demand for alt fuel inventory? so a remedy is ?pay for the equivalent amount of alternative fuel?

Amount: Sponsor solar power panels at a utility. Assume 30 miles per day = 10 kilowatthours of electricity per day x 300 days ? 3000 kilowatt-hours annually

Cost: 3000 x .08/kwhr = $240 in alt fuel cost. Organization is needed to be identified perhaps a switch grass or biofuel provider to help lower the cost of providing the alt fuel or build the infra structure for more fuel

Consequence: Using fuel distracts from building the battery demand that an EV would deliver.

Amount: A next-generation Lithium-ion battery costs $8,000, lasts 5 years and has an annual cost of $1,600. That's roughly 13 cents per mile. The cost will drop to 1 cent a mile if enough are ordered.

Cost: 1 cents per mile x 11,000 miles = $110 a year, payable as a deposit toward owning a future set of batteries for the next car that the SUV owner will switch to. Ampmobiles.com is coordinating a battery purchase. Ampmobileconversions.com in Lake Wylie, South Carolina.

Consequence: Loss of hearts and minds .. so we need to create H&M schools and clinics to ?give back??

Amount: 1 billion muslims ? create and run 100,000 ?H& M? schools or clinics at $200,000 per school/clinic = $20 billion

Cost: $200 per household, payable to www.redcross.org ??

Consequence: Hearts and minds operations during disasters

The next time there is an earthquake in Iran, are we ready to send in supplies?

Amount: 40,000 victims x $2,000 x 5 events/year = $2,000 million or $2 billion

Cost: $20 a year for hearts and minds earthquake relief (to redcross.org?)

TOTAL per household

$825 per household per year

?Hearts and Minds? self-tax

Any comments?

Calculation for homes lost and innocent vitims killed in Afghanistan and Iraq (estimates)

Consequences: Assume 10,000 homes are destroyed by US operations annually.

Amount: Estimated cost is $20,000 per clean up to rebuild. = $200 million to replace homes and other amenities.

100,000 people killed or injured, $10,000 per incident = 1 billion

Total 1.2 billion annually. Divide by 100 million U.S. households, so $120 per home to go to CIVIC or other ?innocent victims? funds.

These calculations have not been doublechecked wiht any organization and no organization is responsible for the conclusions reached in this document. The work is entirely the work of S. McCrea and no organization should be linked to the conclusions. (In other words, there are some represenatives of some organizations that have mentioned their wariness: