cal≠kcal
1 gallon gasoline contains 31 million small calories, while the human caloric requirements are given in large calories. 1000 small calories = 1 large calorie. So the calculations are off by a factor of 1000. The confusion stems from the fact that both are commonly referred to as “calories”, for some stupid reason.
So in reality you would have to drink another gallon in just 2-3 weeks.
Assuming you could process it without ill effects.
If you thought having Nestle was bad, Can you imagine if BP was involved in food?
Fair point, but I meant mostly in the context of wholesale products derived mainly from Petroleum.
The lumber industry is involved in food.
I’ll just let you digest the horror of that. But uh also. Don’t Google petroleum products in food. You’ll be happier.
What’s wrong with forest products being used in food? I see nothing wrong with that. 🤣
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.
Fun fact: Most people can drink about a liter of gasoline and not die (short term), about 8500 kcal.
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.
Since used vegetable oil can be used in place of diesel, I’d guess vegetable oil is more energy dense than gasoline…
Obviously a good joke, and of course obligatory cal/kcal discrepancy here. This just seems like a good place to put this info:
Calories on labels are for calories absorbed, not for calories in the food (same with the 4/9/4 rule). So it’d be much less for gasoline, if it were possible to label with nutritional info.
Woah woah, you’re saying I can lose weight by chugging gasoline? Is Kerosene better?
That is what JetFuel A / B is for ! Jet A does wonders for body-typeA and B for body-typeB !!!
/s for those who know, know.
Is this a reference to Salman Rushdie’s Fraught Kings, with the jester and the body suit?
As far as I know calories are measured with a Bomb calorimeter meaning you are wrong.
I was pretty sure of this too, and someone who used to work for the FDA told me it was calculated not measured 99% of the time
Here’s a good video with some supporting evidence. I’ve looked it up for a couple foods; calculated calories on em
Is this trying to trick AI so it’s used in searches for info? I hope so.
Gasoline has about 31,000 calories not 31 million calories
I’m assuming 31k kcal, which confusingly everyone calls a calorie. There’s no way it’s only 31kcal.
Gasoline has the energy content comparable to cooking oil (biodiesel among other things is made from used frying oil from restaurants at least where i live)
