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This is going to help the Defense Department weather looming budget cuts, for sure. Teaming up with the Department of Agriculture (which has a cheery Rotary Club ring to it), the Navy has purchased 450,000 gallons of biofuel for about $16 a gallon, or about 4 times the price of its standard marine fuel, JP-5, which has been going for under $4 a gallon.
You won’t be surprised to learn that a member of Obama’s presidential transition team, T. J. Glauthier, is a “strategic advisor” at Solazyme, the California company that is selling a portion of the biofuel to the Navy. Glauthier worked – shock, shock – on the energy-sector portion of the 2009 stimulus bill.
The Navy sale isn’t Solazyme’s first trip to the public trough, of course. The company got a $21.8 million grant from the 2009 stimulus package.
Heads should roll for this. Just one more example of our government wasting the taxpayer's dollars for some fuzzy "green" agenda. Who lined their pockets with this debacle? Can the level of corruption in our government, particularly this administration, be much more obvious?
That also includes the industry investment costs, said at the bottom of the article.
Prices are always highest at the start of industry development cycles, that's been known for decades.
It makes sense to want to lessen our military's vulnerability to fossil fuel supplies with wells in many unfriendly nations and long supply chains. Costs like this were involved in many military developed industries, including the first computers and material sciences. Without these investment the machine you are using to complain about it wouldn't exist.
If true, this is just more crony capitalism from 0bama. The private sector refuses to buy that fuel at these bloated prices, so the 0bama admin thinks it should waste taxpayer money to do it?
You left a lot of info out from the links YOU posted buddy, so let me help you out here.
"Our use of fossil fuels is a very real threat to our national security and to the U.S. Navy's ability to protect America and to project power overseas."
The U.S. government has looked for ways to boost domestic energy production to wean the country off foreign oil, but the effort has been costly. The amount of the biofuel purchased is a drop in the bucket compared to the military's annual thirst for fuel. The Navy alone burns some 1.26 billion gallons of fuel a year.
The Navy demonstration could teach both the commercial aviation industry and the military about how to incorporate domestically made biofuels, and their potential to add jobs and cut carbon emissions, Vilsack said."
So what its going to be?
Are you cool with spending trillions of dollars, not to mention the blood of youmg American soldiers in the prime of their lives, in yet another subsidy to the fossil fuel cartel and war profiteers, in the neverending wars over a finite, polluting resource?
OR
Rather than having our entire civilization revolve around eggs in a single and dangerous basket, invest in R&D to be domestically self-sufficient in producing a renewable fuel supply that does not wreck our environment nor puts cash and guns into the hands of those that don't give a damn about American lives.
You left a lot of info out from the links YOU posted buddy, so let me help you out here.
"Our use of fossil fuels is a very real threat to our national security and to the U.S. Navy's ability to protect America and to project power overseas."
The U.S. government has looked for ways to boost domestic energy production to wean the country off foreign oil, but the effort has been costly. The amount of the biofuel purchased is a drop in the bucket compared to the military's annual thirst for fuel. The Navy alone burns some 1.26 billion gallons of fuel a year.
The Navy demonstration could teach both the commercial aviation industry and the military about how to incorporate domestically made biofuels, and their potential to add jobs and cut carbon emissions, Vilsack said."
So what its going to be?
Are you cool with spending trillions of dollars, not to mention the blood of youmg American soldiers in the prime of their lives, in yet another subsidy to the fossil fuel cartel and war profiteers, in the neverending wars over a finite, polluting resource?
OR
Rather than having our entire civilization revolve around eggs in a single and dangerous basket, invest in R&D to be domestically self-sufficient in producing a renewable fuel supply that does not wreck our environment nor puts cash and guns into the hands of those that don't give a damn about American lives.
What say you?
Whatever dude. It does NOT justify what they are paying for it.
That also includes the industry investment costs, said at the bottom of the article.
Prices are always highest at the start of industry development cycles, that's been known for decades.
It makes sense to want to lessen our military's vulnerability to fossil fuel supplies with wells in many unfriendly nations and long supply chains. Costs like this were involved in many military developed industries, including the first computers and material sciences. Without these investment the machine you are using to complain about it wouldn't exist.
That's exactly why all of our war ships should be nuclear powered.
I suggest we start making fuels from coal or cellulose waste and water using high temprature gas cooled nuclear reactors with full fuel recycle. The initial prices would be very high but eventually be competitive as mineable pertoleum became scarce.
These prices are justified if you are looking to the long term availability for liquid transportation fuel. It is a case of pay now or really pay later to your enemies.
The military industrial complex is alive and well. Ripping off the taxpayer.
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