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About 8.4 car seconds of fuel.

Data: Us burns about 390,000,000 gallons of gas per day.

SpaceX Falcon9 uses about 38,000 gallons of RP-1.

390000000/86400 = 4513 (gallons per second of fuel in the US).

38,000/4500 = 8.4 seconds.

On the day this launches, it will represent about 0.0097% of the fuel used for that day in the US.

There are about 280 cars in this photo: https://cimg0.ibsrv.net/ibimg/hgm/450x253-1/100/226/parking-...

If you printed out this image 40 times, you could delete ONE car from this image for one day. That's the difference that this launch will make.




This caused me to look up largest parking lots. You can fit approximately that many cars in the parking lots at Disney in Florida on any given day (11k+ spots). Though I don't know how full they actually get.




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