Originally Posted by
Abe_Froman
Is that 31,000 cal figure accurate for gas? If so..interesting. I just did some math...30,720 calories in a gallon of human digestible cooking oil. Looks like it wholesales for ~$5/gallon if you buy by the case. So twice as expensive as gasoline per calorie for the cheapest possible human digestible calorie, roughly.
Right, and look at the calorie/dollar ratio of other food. It's much lower. As for accuracy of my assertion, it's been a few years since I read it, and I could certainly be wrong.