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To: 4Speed
http://www.advisorperspectives.com/dshort/updates/DOT-Miles-Driven.php lists the total distance driven in the US is just short of 3 trillion miles. That would be 4.8 million acres at 25 mpg or a little less than a fifth of Ohio.
16 posted on 02/19/2014 2:23:48 PM PST by KarlInOhio (Recycled Olympic tagline Shut up, Bob Costas. Shut up! Shut up! Shut up! Shut up! Shut up! Shut up!)
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To: KarlInOhio
That would be 4.8 million acres at 25 mpg or a little less than a fifth of Ohio.

Just the Gulf of Mexico has 384 million acres. Microbes containing oil probably float, and there's plenty of free farm fertilizer runoff. The final replacement for petroleum will probably involve the open ocean because that's where all the energy in petroleum originally came from.

24 posted on 02/19/2014 2:51:41 PM PST by Reeses
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To: KarlInOhio
Detroit would be a good place to build an e-fuel 'farm'. How many acres are vacant now? A win-win. Detroit could be useful again, the city could start receiving tax revenue from the 'farm' and the 'Big Three' ('Tre Grandi' for Chrysler/Fiat) could test such fuels in their new vehicles. Employment could rise in the 'hood and welfare drop.

Won't ever happen though. Detroit City is too addicted to government handouts, like the Province of Quebec, here in Canada. The powers that be that run such places would lose their power base, if their voters were freed of welfare. Kinda like Washington, District Cesspool!

25 posted on 02/19/2014 2:52:25 PM PST by A Formerly Proud Canadian (I once was blind, but now I see...)
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