> When your fuel is 2 million times denser, you need 2 million times less mining, less transportation, etc. That's assuming the raw materials have the same con

> When your fuel is 2 million times denser, you need 2 million times less mining, less transportation, etc. That's assuming the raw materials have the same concentration and accessibility. I would naively assume that just pumping oil up requires no stripping of overburden while some surface uranium mining would. Not saying that oil is great, it's just that the comparison is not as straight-forward as you make it out to be.