Who knows???
What I take from this story is that our high school students are busy tackling the problem of America's dependency on foreign oil. Maybe they'll apply their learned knowledge into producing a very fuel efficient ethanol based vehicle. God knows that our country can produce more than enough corn for to make a significant dent in the amopunt of oil we import from the Middle East.
Really? Do you know how much corn it would take and how much land that corn needs to grow? What do you consider a "significant dent"?