Stanford undergraduates who bought car permits for spring quarter 2004: 3,161
Percentage of Stanford faculty, staff and off-campus students who get to campus without their own car: 34
Price of gas, in dollars per gallon, at Stanford Texaco: 2.35*
Price of gas in Germany, in Euros per liter: 1.14*
Price of gas in Germany converted to dollars per gallon: 5.24*
* based on July 27, 2004, prices and exchange rates
Sources: Stanford Dept. of Parking and Transportation; Yahoo! Finance; Zweites Deutsches Fernsehen