50,000 acres produce 10 million gallons of diesel per year. The thing about Gold Star is all their jatropha plantations are in desert land that would otherwise be useless. So taking up land is a null issue cause the land is worthless which is one of the benefits of jatropha over ethanol. I know Morgan is against all these types of biofuel, but reasonable people are not.
Safeway opened a biofuel station near Seattle last week which is ethanol I believe. So as much as you don't want ethanol Morgan, it's happening. It doesn't take a whole of reading to realise jatropha is much more promising as a major fuel supply. Deffinitely more so than ethanol. Jatropha is just less known at this point. There was an article in Newsweek last week that discussed jatropha and even mentioned Gold Star. This article came out a couple days later and is more detailed about jatropha, worth reading.
http://www.thestar.com/article/185292
