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By the Numbers

1

Percent of today’s total world oil consumption that is available in the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge and in restricted offshore sites

1.3

Percent that oil would lower gas prices if it were all brought onto the market by 2025

80

Percent of all American offshore oil that oil companies currently have access too

1991

The year the first European offshore wind projects were built

0

Number of offshore wind projects on line in the U.S. today

200

Number of wind turbines slated to be placed off the coast of Delaware

17

Percent of Delaware’s energy the project is expected to provide

1

Billion dollars, the estimated health savings of transferring 17 percent of energy production from coal to wind in Delaware over the next 25 years

3.75

Billion dollars, the annual federal subsidy for nuclear power from 1950 – 1990

3.75

Billion dollars, the total federal subsidy for wind power from 1983 – 2007

Sources: United States Department of Energy; WHYY Radio, Philadelphia; http://www.bluewaterwind.com; Energy Information Agency report, “Federal Financial Interventions and Subsidies in Energy Markets 2007”