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1,300

Trucks made per day at GM’s only Detroit auto plant in 2003

 

230

Trucks made per day at the factory today

 

1985

The last year a Frenchman won the Tour de France bicycle race

 

0

Number of Americans who had won the race as of 1985

 

10

Number of times an American has won it since (not counting Floyd Landis, stripped of his victory after a positive drug test in 2006)

 

7

Million acres of forest in the United States killed by beetle infestations

 

22

Million more acres expected to die over the next 15 years

 

14,000

Tons of coal used each day to fuel Utah’s Hunter Power Plant

 

1

Ton, the amount of coal needed to provide one U.S. house with electricity for two months

 

Sources:  New York Times Magazine; http://www.letour.fr; National Geographic