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In 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!]

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Day: 13
Status: Relieved
Result: 24
Earnings: $13,000
Days Remaining: 47

I made a deal with myself

A couple of days ago, I decided I wasn't going to shave again until I submitted a short story for publication. I'm going to write around 2000 words or so and I'm going to try scifi.com, as they pay $0.20 a word. I figure if I can sell 12 stories a year at that rate, I can pay my rent with writing. I like that idea lots and lots. It only takes me a couple of hours to write 2000 words; 40 or so hours of work a year for rent, I figure.

I may be wild and wooly when you next see me. But I intend to do this before leaving for Hawaii.

There's a very regal looking bluejay perched on a tree branch outside my window.

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( Beck )