Opinion: Why Buffett Bet A Billion On Solar: Miles Per Acre Per Year
Green Car Congress
JUNE 29, 2015
Average fuel efficiency in the US is 22 miles per gallon (mpg). New cars in 2015 get 25 mpg.) An acre of corn that provides 500 gallons of ethanol, at 22 mpg, gives you 11,000 miles, or would, if such gallons had the same energy content as a gallon of gasoline. Unfortunately, they don’t.
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