Posted on 06/10/2012 7:45:27 PM PDT by DogByte6RER
... The cost of the biofuels calculated out at $15.25 a gallon in the November 2011 purchase, said Thomas Hicks, the Navys deputy assistant secretary for energy.
Regular marine diesel and jet fuel purchased by the Pentagon around the same time cost just less than $4 a gallon, according to the Defense Logistics Agencys energy division.
There is absolutely no reason to use biofuels at this point in time. There may never be.
More libtard feel-good policies run amok.
The budget is tight lets run the fleet on unicorn flatulence its only a trillion a gallon.
So the obvious solution... artificially raise the price of fossil fuels to higher than the cost of this bio-nuts crap (and maybe throw even more government subsidies at the bio-crap).
Ping.
Add this to the list of things for a new President to do day 1
- Fire anyone at State involved in Law of Sea Treaty
- Fire anyone at State involved in promoting “gay pride” events at overseas embassies
- Fire anyone at D.O.D. involved in promoting the use of algae fuels, beyond R&D.
It may cost even more when you consider that the energy output per kilogram is probably a lot less with a biofuel. What is the cost for the same amount of energy supplied via gasoline for instance?
Which reminds me, did anyone catch the gushing Leon Panneta story on 60 Minutes tonight? He's the best Defense Secretary ever!
They should use this overpriced goo in his Government issued Private Jet and make him pay for it personally.
It’s a small price to pay for saving the earth.
Ships that don’t require speed can revert back to sail power.
Actually..the cost is even more than what they paid. The delivery was $15 a gallon..it consisted of 50% conventional fuel at $4 a gallon and 50% biofuel..about $26 per gallon..blended at $15. They probably were selling the biofuel at a loss so it gets worse still.
Actually..the cost is even more than what they paid. The delivery was $15 a gallon..it consisted of 50% conventional fuel at $4 a gallon and 50% biofuel..about $26 per gallon..blended at $15. They probably were selling the biofuel at a loss so it gets worse still.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Elk_Hills_Oil_Field
Another genius move from Clinton...
These people are thinking with the thing they are sitting on.
Military says yes sir to the Obama appointees. We’ll try your idiotic liberal ideas.
Here's an idea - we close the EPA, jail the environmentalists (or send them to Europe) and drill for our own oil.
That will "easing the country away from dependence on unfriendly foreign oil" just as well.
Don’t give them any ideas.
Just wait until the next maintenance report is released revealing that the engines need to be completely replaced due to unusual wear given the use of the new, untested fuel.
Its not just the EPA, but the Department of Energy, and the Department of Agriculture that are co-conspirators pushing for biofuels. The push for biofuels from the USDA was seen as necessary to gain additional funding through increased “relevance” of agricultural research. Seems that there was a diminishing amount of useful scientific research that was coming out of the USDA ARS and biofuels research was one means of obtaining massive infusion of money in a (then) politically popular area. The problem now has become how to continue the charade once the poor energy conversion of biofuels became more widely known. Its not just algae, but grasses and other cellulosic feedstocks for ethanol production. The taxpayers are getting fleeced.
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