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A "napkin calculation" to figure out how much taxpayer money is saved by evacuating an accident scene with a Chinook ASAP
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| cars = 20000.0 | |
| avg_salary_per_hr = 40.0 | |
| accident_visible_hrs_without_chinook = 1.5 | |
| accident_visible_hrs_with_chinook = 0.3 | |
| idle_gas_gallons_per_hr = 0.25 | |
| gas_cost_per_gal = 4.0 | |
| total_cost_of_accident_without_chinook = (cars * avg_salary_per_hr * accident_visible_hrs_without_chinook) + | |
| (idle_gas_gallons_per_hr * gas_cost_per_gal * accident_visible_hrs_without_chinook) | |
| total_cost_of_accident_with_chinook = (cars * avg_salary_per_hr * accident_visible_hrs_with_chinook) + | |
| (idle_gas_gallons_per_hr * gas_cost_per_gal * accident_visible_hrs_with_chinook) | |
| chinook_ch47_gallons_per_hr = 358 | |
| chinook_gas_cost_per_gal = 3.13 # JP8 fuel | |
| chinook_mission_time_hrs = 2.0 | |
| total_cost_to_fly_a_chinook_in_to_remove_accident = | |
| (chinook_ch47_gallons_per_hr * chinook_gas_cost_per_gal * chinook_mission_time_hrs) | |
| print total_cost_of_accident_without_chinook - | |
| (total_cost_of_accident_with_chinook + total_cost_to_fly_a_chinook_in_to_remove_accident) | |
| #=> 957760.12 |
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That's a million dollars saved per accident. And 20,000 cars being involved is probably a conservative estimate.