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• For what Michael Schumaker earns, you could feed 2.8million African children for a month.
• For what Carl Edwards pays in fuel just to fly to his races, you could feed 136 african children for a month.
• For the cost of just one gallon of NASCAR fuel, Sonoco could sponsor an African child’s entire food for a week, or put enough books in his school to last three children a year.
• Each race car puts enough lead in the air in a single hour to poison three adults (or six children).
• The constructions of Taledega caused the extinction of the rare orchid when it was built.
• NASCAR teams spend more money per year on engines than the entire budget of the Red Cross.
• More people are killed by second-hand fumes than people who attend, even if they stay far away from events.
• More than 30,000 acres of forest are lost each year due to the construction and expansion of NASCAR tracks.
• Three species of bird have been entirely wiped out due to NASCAR.
• NASCAR typically spills more gasoline during qualifying heats than it takes for eight single mothers to fill up their V6 minivans.
• CO2 and CO are not only what racecars produce, but they’re also poisonous to humans.
• More species have gone extinct since NASCAR began than in the previous thousand years.
• NASCAR produces more pollution than the states of Rhode Island and Vermont combined.
• The rate of birth defects in children born within five miles of a race track are more than triple the national average
• The rate of Black Lung is higher in NASCAR pit crews than in coal miners.
• NASCAR races put enough metal into landfills to build an aircraft carrier every month
• The gas burnt at a single NASCAR race could power the entire Green Zone for two weeks.
• Ten seasons of NASCAR will raise the global temperature by .1 degrees over the next hundred years.
• 3% of species on the endangered list could be downgraded to protected within ten years if NASCAR was banned by 2010.
• Over three dozen climatologists agree that NASCAR has caused at least two whale species to diminish by more than 30% of their populations.
• Children who attend NASCAR events are four-times more likely to develop adult onset diabetes.
• NASCAR fumes are so poisonous that less than 55% of racers have even a high school diploma, and only 3% have any college education at all.
• Fewer than zero NASCAR teams operate at Carbon Neutral.
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