Pentagon looks to cut oil use and costs

In an effort to reduce the U.S. military’s spending amid high fuel costs, the Pentagon is looking at wind, solar, geothermal, biofuel, hybrids and hydrogen fuel cells as new sources of energy.

The Defense Department uses more than four times as much energy as the other government agencies combined, and accounts for almost all the government’s petroleum consumption, according to the Department of Energy. Security and environmental concerns associated with fossil fuels are part of the reason the Pentagon is pushing energy efficiency and renewable energy, said Dennis McGinn, a retired vice admiral for the Navy and a senior fellow at Rocky Mountain Institute in Snowmass, Colo.

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