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I’ve always been an advocate of alternate transportation instead of driving around in your car. It’s dirty and expensive. I mean, oil doesn’t grow on tress. Oh wait, yes it does.
The Brazilian Copaifera langsdorfii can be tapped like a maple tree for a natural diesel that needs only to be filtered before it can go into diesel trucks and tractors. Purdue University says that an acre of 100 mature trees might be able to produce 25 barrels of fuel per year and the trees give up the good stuff for up to 70 years. The US uses about 7.3 billion barrels of oil a year, which equals 292 million trees which is about 3 million acres of land needed to keep up with our needs.
That’s a lot of trees. But hey, we need to plant more trees to reduce the carbon emissions of the cars anyway. It’s just a shame that it takes 15-20 years for the trees to reach maturity and the oil it produces is only good for 3 months.
The Copaifera langsdorfii probably isn’t the most practical solution to our oil problems, but I’m sure it would help out if anyone would do anything about it.
