Our Huddled Masses of Oil, Yearning to Break Free It takes fifty gallons of water to produce one gallon of ethanol. How wasteful. Sir Richard Branson’s bio-fueled flight of two hours required the oil of 150,000 coconuts.Think of all the poor people who could survive on 150,000 coconuts. For a two-hour flight, that’s dreadfully wasteful. [...]

Our Huddled Masses of Oil, Yearning to Break Free It takes fifty gallons of water to produce one gallon of ethanol. How wasteful. Sir Richard Branson’s bio-fueled flight of two hours required the oil of 150,000 coconuts.Think of all the poor people who could survive on 150,000 coconuts. For a two-hour flight, that’s dreadfully wasteful. [...]