The Next ‘Greatest Generation’

That’s it . . . the Pentagon has officially smelled the coffee on peak oil.

They’re not talking efficiency improvements or pilot projects anymore. Oh no.

Now they’re singing a much more plaintive tune:

“We have to wake up. We are at the edge of a precipice and we have one foot over the edge. The only way to avoid going over is to move forward and move forward aggressively with initiatives to develop alternative fuels. Just cutting back won’t work,” said Milton R. Copulos, president of the National Defense Council Foundation and an expert on the military’s energy needs.


Wow. That’s pretty straight shootin’ there, Tex.

According to a new study by defense consulting firm LMI, the dwindling availability of oil, plus its rising costs, makes the U.S. military’s operations “unsustainable in the long term.”

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