Dominion Resources End of Year Numbers (With Apologies to Harper's Index)

Let's do the numbers!

• Number of people killed in a Virginia apartment fire this month that started when a grandmother resorted to candles for light after Dominion cut off the power because she failed to pay the bill: three, the grandmother and two kids

• Dominion Resources net income in 2008: $2.5 billion

• Amount that Thomas F. Farrell II earned as Dominion Resources president, chairman, and CEO in 2008: $17.83 million

• Thomas F. Farrell's compensation rank among U.S. utility CEOs: Third
  

• Estimated tons of CO2 emitted by Dominion Resources power plants in 2008: 64 million

• Estimated cost of damage to the planet caused by Dominion's annual CO2 emissions: $4.92 billion (calculated by multiplying Dominion's annual emissions by the Stern Review estimate of the present and future damage caused by a ton of CO2 ($77) including floods, droughts, sea-level rise, declining food production, species extinction, etc.

• Amount Dominion Resources recently donated to food banks in the 14 states where it operates: $1.1 million