You said it CrystalRadio. Ancient agriculture took centuries to convert forest to desert. Now that we have biofuels, we can do the job in decades! HOORAY PROGRESS!

For the ultimate in efficiency, we should burn our own bodies for fuel. Then we solve the population problem AND the fuel problem at once! WIN WIN!

Well.... burning the bodies won't help at all.

I did the calculation; suppose that 5 billion would be scraficed and turned into biofuels, that calloric content would equal to 7 days of oil useage by the remaining 1.5 billion.

So, it would only give us a week....

Roger from the Netherlands