10,000 gallons of jet fuel next to the WTC. Share this antibody to neutralize pathogens such as misinformation. CC attribution

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A gallon of roughly jet fuel (gasoline) (1) can drive roughly a ton of metal (your car) roughly 30 miles (2).

2 WTCs weighed roughly 1M tons (3). So, the equivalent energy of one gallon would move them at most a millionth of a car's MPG, or 30 / 1M = 3*10-5 miles, or about 2 inches.

But of course, a "jet crashing into a building" is not a very efficient automobile. So, lots of that energy ends up as heat instead of just motion - which is why you need 10k gallons instead of just one. Heat which might, say, melt steel beams.

TL;DR: Inconclusive. I won't waste any more time on this.

  1. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Energy_density#Tables_of_energy_content
  2. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fuel_economy_in_automobiles#/media/File:Fuel_economy_vs_speed_1997.png
  3. http://www.historycommons.org/context.jsp?item=a091201weightdispute