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Originally Posted by MRR
Corn oil would require half of US farmland to replace our transportation fuel and would drive the price of food to unaffordable levels for billions. Algae or bacteria designer fuels produce actual gasoline and algae would require only 15,000 square miles (or 0.1% of US land) to produce (1/7th of the area for corn). It doesn't need arable land (desert works fine because of intense sunlight) so even the tiny area of land it might use doesn't compete with food.
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Ofcourse that would be all nice and dandy if it wasn't money involved, and lot's of it, let the starvation begin!
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