if we handwave it with modern sonic not actually being able to do that without the power of rings, and those fuel his boost gauge that gives him the power to do that, and idk let's say 1 ring gives him the magic energy to accelerate up to that speed and stay at it for a second.

that one ring would have 2.2 million joules of energy, at a maximum discharge rate of pretty much all of it per second.

why the fuck is everyone not grabbing as many of these as they can?