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U.S. Military Vaults into Clean Energy Future Despite Fossil Fuel Lobby
Throughout the last century, the U.S. achieved global military advantage primarily due to fossil fuels, but energy technology changes over time and sooner or later fossil fuels are destined to give way to new energy sources and energy storage solutions that serve modern military purposes far more effectively, and far less expensively. The fossil fuel industry may be entitled to fight for its life but meanwhile the U.S. military is going full steam ahead into a cleaner, safer renewable energy future.
There they go again: right when the U.S. military completes yet another project to reduce CO2 emissions, the fossil fuel industry plays Debbie Downer. This week’s matchup involved our own U.S. Air Force, which has just announced its latest solar power installation with cheery pride, versus an industry group called “CO2 is Green,” which has just launched a new campaign proclaiming that more C02 is good because “it supports all plant life.” Hey, whose corner should we be in?
2 Comments on "U.S. Military Vaults into Clean Energy Future Despite Fossil Fuel Lobby"
KenZ300 on Mon, 19th Jul 2010 12:02 am
The military could give a big boost to alternatives fuels. The massive cost for fuel and energy that the US military consumes is showing how reliant we are on countries that do not support us for OIL.
Our National Security and Economic Security demand that the military lead in the transition to alternative forms of energy.
DC on Mon, 19th Jul 2010 3:26 pm
Ironic that the american military, one of the single largest consumers of fossils fuels in the world, wants to be become “greener”? I guess it only makes sense if your going to staddle the globe, liberateing all those annoying foreigners from their oppressive resources, that you do it in ecologically sound manner. Whats next, bio-degradeable cluster bombs? The american empire will continue to decay regardless of how greenwashed its expensive fossil-fuel forces try to become. Sooner the better