By the Numbers

219,000

Number of vehicles in the U.S. Postal Service Fleet

68

Million, gallons of gas that could be saved by converting them to electric

465,914.07

Dollars, the amount Door County exceeded its snow removal budget in the second half of 2008

120,000

Dollars, the amount spent by Lake County, IL on 1,300 road markers whose sole purpose is to mark the roads as owned and maintained by the county

0

The number of Supreme Court justices who have ever run for elected office, making it the first time in history that not a single judge had run before

8

The number of Supreme Court justices who attended Harvard or Yale law school

19,000

The number of combat missions the United States flew in Afghanistan in 2008, the most since the war began in 2001

Sources: The New York Times; County of Door; Chicago Tribune; Journalism.org