"War Or Car" Blog Has Been Updated To Reflect This Week's Palin News...

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As the site gets updated every day or so, there are other funny and disturbing economic equivalencies found there in addtion to these two:

Buy A Bridge To Nowhere For Each House Or Condo In Alaskan Zip Code 99901



For the price of the Iraq War, we could attach a new 'Bridge to Nowhere' to each house and condo in Alaska's zip code 99901.

The 99901 zip code contains 6,164 houses and condos. It was supposed to include the infamous Bridge to Nowhere, a $398 million bridge designed to connect Ketchikan, Alaska, with a small island inhabited by only 50 people. Governor Sarah Palin, pictured above, ended her support of the bridge after it became clear that $169 million in federal funding would not be forthcoming. Fully funding the addition of a new 'Bridge to Nowhere' to each house and condo in 99901 would cost $2.45 trillion, which is less than Joseph Stiglitz and Linda Bilmes' estimate of $3 trillion for the cost of the Iraq War.



Build A Wall Of Condoms Along The Alaska-Canada Border High Enough To Reach The Ozone Layer

For the price of the Iraq War, we could've helped sexually active Alaska teens by building a wall of condoms along the Alaska-Canada border high enough to reach the ozone layer.

The Alaska-Canada border is 2477 km. Using the online ruler shows that a LifeStyles lubricated condom is 5.5 cm long. This means that it would take 45 million condoms to stretch along the entire border.

While ozone is somewhat diffuse in the earth's atmosphere, the ozone layer is formed by greater concentrations of ozone in the stratosphere from 20 and 40 km above the earth's surface. It would thus take about 363,636 condoms to reach the ozone layer. Building a wall this high along the Alaska-Canada border would require 16.4 trillion condoms. Purchased in cases of 1000 from ripnroll at $159, this many condoms would cost $2.6 trillion, which is less than Joseph Stiglitz and Linda Bilmes' estimate of $3 trillion for the cost of the Iraq War.