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Apr. 15th, 2004 09:10 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
mik3capIn Louisiana alone, it takes 32,500,000 gallons of gasoline to produce corn on 500,000 acres.
That's the equivalent of driving 38,461 SUVs or 28,837 pickup trucks all year. Just for the corn in Louisiana.
For all the corn in the U.S... it's 5,330,768 SUVs or 3,996,893 pickup trucks.
(assuming 0.5 gallons of gasoline to produce a bushel, and 130 bushels per acre in 2003, 9 mpg for pickup trucks, and 12 mpg for SUVs)
[Note that the lower number of pickup trucks is *bad* because it means that pickup trucks use more gas than SUVs!]
That's the equivalent of driving 38,461 SUVs or 28,837 pickup trucks all year. Just for the corn in Louisiana.
For all the corn in the U.S... it's 5,330,768 SUVs or 3,996,893 pickup trucks.
(assuming 0.5 gallons of gasoline to produce a bushel, and 130 bushels per acre in 2003, 9 mpg for pickup trucks, and 12 mpg for SUVs)
[Note that the lower number of pickup trucks is *bad* because it means that pickup trucks use more gas than SUVs!]