The world spends an area larger than California growing under four per cent of its transport fuel.

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• Biofuels cannot supply enough energy to matter for a country like Britain or to replace all transport fuels. DMDavid MacKay3 Nov 2008
• Britain's onshore wind resource, though large, is not as large as the country's energy consumption. DMDavid MacKay3 Nov 2008
• Growing food to put in cars is a mistake at a moment when the world should be farming less land, not more. HRHannah Ritchie5 Sept 2023
• Sustainable aviation fuel cannot be scaled to the size of the fleet, because its feedstock competes with growing food. BFBjorn Fehrm2 Apr 2021
• Data centres mostly take farmland, of which America has too much, rather than housing land, of which it has too little. AMAndy Masley2 May 2026

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