There Are Ample Biomass Resources To Support Growth

The National Renewable Energy laboratories have identified forest and agricultural feedstocks to supplant 3.6 billion barrels of oil imports.
Source: Slide image obtained from NREL, 2006. Data originally from ORNL & USDA Resource Assessment by Perlack et.al., 4/05, http://www.eere.energy.gov/biomass/pdfs/final_billionton_vision_report2.pdf	Source: Pellet Fuels Institute, http://www.pelletheat.org/3/residential/brochure.pdf
(1.3 Billion tons of biomass) x (2.8 barrels of oil equivalent per ton) = 3.6 billion barrels of oil equivalent