Assuming you could process it without ill effects.

If you thought having Nestle was bad, Can you imagine if BP was involved in food?

Everything you said was correct, except the last sentence. Still pretty sure drinking a gallon of gasoline would be enough to last you your entire life.

That life would just be less than 2-3 weeks.

Damn. I definitely don’t do more work than a car in 12-20 days. I guess that makes sense

The maths a little off, it wont last him 30+ years; but he's absolutely correct with that final statment. If he chugs a gallon of gasoline; he won't need to eat for the rest of his life.

"large calories"?!? The name is kilocalories

Fats and oils have about the same energy density as gasoline.

I was about to ask if they properly converted to kcals used in dietary measurements and here your comment is.

I’m not ai, just dumb 🥰

Hence the title :)

So just 31kcal in one gallon? That doesn't seem a whole lot.

Sigh, unzips

Without a doubt! Humans and life in general is uber efficient in terms of energy use. Most of the energy of a car is not directly spent for the work. Work is done when moving mass from a lower to a higher place and accelerating it to a higher speed. But once you have accelerated the mass to the cruise speed, it actually does not require any energy to maintain. Rather, the energy is spent by the car to heat up the air, move it around, wear the road and the tires, and make noise.

We use cars because they are muuuch more powerful than humans, at the cost of wasing a lot of energy. Try to push a car uphill, you won't ever succeed without pullies which makes it even slower. Doesn't matter how efficient you are if you cannot output the minimum power required to overcome friction etc.

Yes, and gasoline actually has less energy density than body fat at approx. 33 MJ/L vs. 35 MJ/L : https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Energy_density

We used to have self driving vehicles running on water and hay.

It would already be awesome if we could hack or genetically engineer our gut biome to produce all needed vitamins and proteins out of carbohydrates and fats. Theoretically then we could live just off of sugar or oil. Plus some minerals.

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