The greenies who think EVs are the future will have a rude awakening when there is no organic tofu on the shelves of the Whole Foods. American agriculture runs on diesel fuel and there are not even prototypes of practical electric tractors, combines and heavy haul trucks that are essential to planting, harvesting and transporting grain to markets. Killing off diesel fuel is a sure means of producing widespread famine.
Here is actual measured diesel amounts per acre from a well respected source in case anyone wants to know them. Modern farming is amazingly efficient.
https://store.extension.iastate.edu/product/4047
That posted this is also true.
Henry Ford believed ethanol was the future of fuel and said: “There’s enough alcohol in one year’s yield of an acre of potatoes to drive the machinery necessary to cultivate the fields for a hundred years.”
There is a lot of good math here using the above data for diesel converting to the Btu equivalent in ethanol. Sweet potatoes make five times the alcohol per acre as corn at 1800 gallons per acre. Simply put if humans needed too with sweet potatoes it’s a one acre alcohol yield to plant and plow 100 other acres plus the original acre. The USA has 20 million acres fallow in reserve and at a 100 to 1 ratio could plant and plow 2,000,000,000 acres just using alcohol off the reserve farmland the total US farmland is 897,400,000 acres this also doesn’t take into account that alcohol can now be made directly from cellulose something impossible in Henry Ford day the yield of alcohol from cellulose is five to ten times that of using starch or kernals of a plant as the stalks and leaves have ten to 5 times the mass of the starch or seed produced by the plant.
Seems impossible but the math works out remember an acre is only 43560 sqft or an area 208 feet by 208 feet.
This company converts diesels to alcohol with 25% greater power, nearly zero NOx emissions and no particulate matter emissions. All the while being cheaper per hour operated vs diesel they have the tests to prove it by an independent scientific review.
Here is the white paper in full print.
https://www.clearflameengines.com/white-paper/tco-study/