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by zachrose 1417 days ago
About the same amount of land.

In North America alone, 30,000 square kilometers for all oil and gas[0].

For a rough approximation, the US produced 14% of oil in the world in 2021[1] and this guy on Quora[2] says that 12% of the world's oil and gas goes into aviation fuel.

[0] https://www.science.org/content/article/thirty-thousand-squa...

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_by_oil_produ...

[2] https://www.quora.com/What-percentage-of-the-world-s-crude-o...

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That’s all oil and gas activity; jet fuel accounts for only a very small fraction of that.
Already pipelines running from those areas :-) maybe in the future can transport solar jet fuel instead?