Commercial flights burn 13 gallons per minute. The estimated energy in 1 gallon of fuel is 100,000,000 J.US Commercial flight carriers are currently conducting about5,670 passenger flights daily. The average commercial flight distance is 500 miles.

What is the estimated energy per average flight?

What is an estimate of the number of gallons of fuel used daily inUS Commercial flights?

Estimate the energy in the fuel used daily inUS Commercial flights?

In Estimating the energy in the fuel used daily what would that energy compare to on the Energy: orders of magnitude.