[camle]

well lemme see...

55 bushels per acre. even if you get 100% conversion (55 gallons per acre - which we all know we will not get), that comes out to be about three tankfuls of gas. A week and a half for most drivers. So if that is true, then to supply one single car you'd require 52weeks/year/1.4 weeks per acre = 34.6 acres per year for every car.

now if you plant a million acres, and we may agree that this is not really feasible at this time, but let's use one million acres as a hypothesis, you can power at most one million acres/34.6 acres per car = 28-29 thousand cars.

how many cars are there in the US?

[Toby06]

55 bushels per acre. even if you get 100% conversion (55 gallons per acre

Since when does 1 bu = 1 gallon? Care to check that math?

[An Old Man]

Nothing new here!

In the old days we used to use horses to sow and reap oats.

As the yields became smaller everyone thought the solution might lie in farming more acerage. That lead to raising more horses to do the work. More horses ate more oats and also required that more land be set aside for pasture. In the end the yield went down again up until the time when everyone purchased a tractor. Then if mother nature cooperated, the yield went right through the roof!

Nowdays with the cost of fuel and machinery, we need to get the yield up so that we can purchase more fuel for our larger tractors, and to pay off larger loans.

Have you noticed how when things change, they seem to remain the same?

[Old Professer]

Off by a factor of five at least, gonna take your calculator away.