[CPEO-MEF] ENERGY: Defense Department seek alternative fuel

[Lenny Siegel <lsiegel@cpeo.org>]

Pentagon Prioritizes Pursuit Of Alternative Fuel Sources

By Steve Vogel
Washington Post
April 13, 2009

For the Defense Department, the largest consumer of energy in the United 
States, addiction to fuel has greater costs than the roughly $18 billion 
the agency spent on it last year.

By some estimates, about half of the U.S. military casualties in Iraq 
and Afghanistan are related to attacks with improvised explosive devices 
on convoys, many of which are carrying fuel. As of March 20, 3,426 
service members had been killed by hostile fire in Iraq, 1,823 of them 
victims of IEDs.

"Every time you bring a gallon of fuel forward, you have to send a 
convoy," said Alan R. Shaffer, director of defense research and 
engineering at the Pentagon. "That puts people's lives at risk."

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For the entire article, see 
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2009/04/12/AR2009041202437.html



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Lenny Siegel
Executive Director, Center for Public Environmental Oversight
a project of the Pacific Studies Center
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