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All told, we spent 4.8 billion hours on the road and bought 1.9 billion more gallons of petrol in 2011 just because of congestion.
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And EV advocates keep painting a more robust eventual future for their favorite technology about the next billion vehicles that will be on the road over the next 20 years.
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At best, however, it could provide no more than about 1% of America's road fuel say, 15 billion out of 140 billion gallons a year.
ECONOMIST: Behind Detroit's sudden embrace of ethanol
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To counter his collapse in public support, Hollande marked his first anniversary in office by announcing government plans to spend 20 billion euros on infrastructure over the next decade to revamp road and power networks.
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Three years after the launching of the Iraq invasion, you can play it upbeat or downbeat depending on whether you consider 2, 300 American lives and some 35, 000 Iraqi lives as necessary losses on the road to democracy, never mind the multi-billion dollar cost.
NPR: First Iraq War Set the Stage for Current Conflict
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But if we now look down the road a little bit, the world is finding 10 billion to 15 billion barrels each year, while we are using about 30 billion barrels of oil per year.
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About half-a-billion-pounds a year is spent covering the overall financial impact of road crashes in the Thames Valley region.
BBC: NEWS | UK | England | Berkshire | 'Deadly price' of drink-driving
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From 1996 to 2010, the shift to biotech crops reduced carbon emissions by 19.4 billion kilograms, the equivalent of removing 8.6 million cars from the road for a year.
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The road is a key element of the Maputo Corridor, a seven-billion dollar development initiative, which will eventually include a rail link, an upgrading of Maputo's harbour, factories, shops and hotels.
BBC: News | Africa | South Africa and Mozambique launch road project