Americans burn about 140,000,000,000 gallons (140 BG) of gasoline in our cars in any given year, depending on the price. About 66% or 93 BG of this gasoline comes from imported oil.
At this time the current plan in America is to replace 36 BG of gasoline with alcohol made in America.
However we still have a shortfall of replacing the remaining 57 BG with more ethanol, biofuels, other renewable fuels, compressed natural gas, hybrids or some other technology to become oil independent.
A national Plan is needed if we are really serious about Oil Independence. We need to get the best minds to get creative with technology. We have 260,000,000 (260M) cars on the road. Replacing cars at 10 M per year with the latest and greatest technology will take 26 years, assuming we Americans can afford to buy them, to get Independence from Oil Imports.
Should we wait that long? Lets do it in 10 years or less but with more ethanol and compressed natural gas.
More to come.
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