We have an enormous amount of idle cropland in the US east of or just west of the Mississippi River that could be brought on line.
Also state-of-the art cane mills are highly efficient in the distilltaion process, as are wood fired electrical generation plants.
For Eurasia, the trees grown for this use in the US could be grown roughly central Finland to N. of Vladivostok, and from the Caucasus to the Pacific in the South, in areas with suffiecient rainfall to support trees.
Call me Pollyanna if you wish, but I don't think of myself as a Pollyanna type of guy. The problem is, in my opinion, manageable long term.
FWIW, I've seen a lot of mopeds and motorcycles in Viginia with gasoline at $2.50-3.00 a gallon(non-Imperial). "When the abyss stares at me, it wets its pants." Brian Hopkins
We have an enormous amount of idle cropland in the US east of or just west of the Mississippi River
Do you have details, or a reference?
What do you propose growing on this land?
Could you explain what you mean by "the trees grown for this use in the US"? When locusts move on, they leave nothing behind
