Estimated number of U.S. lives saved per month by $4 gasoline, through reduced driving nationwide: 1,000
Number of additional road deaths that would have been caused by a "gas-tax holiday" this summer: 66
Number of U.S. gas stations where the group Pray at the Pump has gathered to ask God to lower the price: 12
Amount by which the per-gallon price declined the day they prayed at one Alabama station: 3›
Total donations that John McCain received from the oil-and-gas industry in June: $1,100,000
Portion of this that came after he endorsed new offshore drilling on June 16: 3/4
Estimated total cost, over 10 years, of the official tax policies laid out by McCain's campaign: $4,200,000,000,000
Estimated total cost of the tax policies proposed by McCain in his public speeches: $7,000,000,000,000
Number of Senate votes McCain has cast since May: 0
Number cast by Ted Kennedy since he was diagnosed with brain cancer that month: 1
Portion of the laws passed by the current Congress that have involved the renaming of post offices: 1/4
Rank of Obama's primary victory among the greatest events in U.S. history, according to Rep. Jesse Jackson Jr. in May: 1
Number of extra books of the Bible he said could be written to "chronicle
its significance": 1
Percentage change since 2003 in the amount of money invested in U.S. faith-based mutual funds: +32
Average annualized percentage return since then in the Christian and Muslim funds, respectively: +7, +11
Number of Middle Eastern nations that have announced plans to pursue nuclear power since January 2007: 13
Number of graves Iran's army claims it is digging at the nation's borders, for the burial of invading soldiers: 320,000
Number of Palestinian women who gave birth while detained at Israeli checkpoints last year: 4
Average number of names added to the U.S. terrorist watch list each month: 20,000
Date on which Nelson Mandela's name was removed: 7/1/2008
Annual salary of the Bush administration's director of fact checking: $60,000
Amount of loose change recovered at U.S. airport-security checkpoints since 2005: $1,050,371.78
Percentage of Citigroup profits in 2006 that came from credit cards: 18
Percentage last year: 79
Amount that the Freddie Mac and Fannie Mae loan companies have spent on lobbying since 1998: $174,000,000
Chance that an American lives within four miles of an EPA Superfund site: 1 in 4
Chance that he or she lives within 10 miles of one: 1 in 2
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