Reply #18: Because there are crops that are much more oil bearing

[MadHound]

The top field crops for oil yield are black oil sunflower, soybeans and hemp. The top crop anywhere for oil is oil bearing algae. In fact with a mere 15000 sq miles of algae ponds, we could fill all of our current fuel needs. And making biodiesel is much less energy intensive and polluting than any sort of ethanol.

I would propose that we pass a law that every single vehicle manufactured be diesel powered, and that we switch our manufacture, refining and infrastructure to accomodate biodiesel within ten years. This way we could fulfill all of our fuel needs domestically, cleanly, and at low cost to the consumer.

Sadly though, as long as big oil is in our government, this isn't going to happen.