Short-Term Politics Stifles Pentagon's Green Energy Ambitions
The
US Defense Department consumes more energy than any other department or
sector in the country, spending around $20 billion annually by some
estimates; but ambitious plans to make it the nation’s green leader have
been swept under the rug over budgetary concerns that smack of campaign
politics. It is an inauspicious development for US energy independence,
and indeed a contradictory one. The Defense Department is reeling under
higher fuel costs already, which have left it short some $3 billion. A
stronger focus on alternative fuels will…Read more...
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