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[Don Bowen <don.bowen AT earthlink.net>]

At 6/7/2007, you wrote:
> If every available bit of idle land was
> devoted to hemp cultivation, it would still be a drop in the bucket 
> compared to the
> 1.2 billion gallons of oil the US uses every day (29 million barrels @ 42
> gallons a barrel).

US gasoline demand for the week ending 6/1/7 was 9.495 Million barrels per 
day, Diesel fuel was 4.084 Million barrels per day.
Source:
http://www.eia.doe.gov/oil_gas/petroleum/info_glance/petroleum.html



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In a message dated 6/7/2007 11:09:23 AM Eastern Daylight Time, 
don.bowen AT earthlink.net writes:


> US gasoline demand for the week ending 6/1/7 was 9.495 Million barrels per 
> day, Diesel fuel was 4.084 Million barrels per day.

Right, that's just under 14 million barrels (580 odd million gallons) of 
MOTOR fuel.  Just around half of all the oil we use.  The rest is used for 
heating, generating electricity, and industrial processes such as crude refining, 
metal smelting, food processing, etc.

But of course an ebbing tide grounds all ships.  As oil for any purpose 
becomes more expensive, the demand for alternative fuels and oils increases for all 
of them.     </HTML>