The most important national security issue after border security is becoming energy independent.
The army is doing the right thing.
The solar and wind stuff is a side show and won’t yield cheap energy any time soon.
But the biofuel stuff will has great potential of yielding energy at below current costs within 2-3 years.
That would change the world.
Bully for the army.
The Obots are right on this one.
Green is a pipe dream, a business fad that everyone from fast food, energy companies, to shoe manufacturers has latched onto... But nonetheless, it's a fad and mostly a scam. Of course because the people talk about it, the politicians now want to line up and throw themselves out front of this.
Firms like Solyndra typify what is happening in this so called “green industry” where you have businesses that “game the system” in so far use the tax code, subsidies and mandated quota's in order to make themselves profitable. By themselves in an open an free market, they go under. The kiss of death for Solyndra in reality was that “Cap and Trade” didn't pass. Had this become a law, this firm could have sold their pet rock or can of fresh air on a market where consumers are forced to consume this product; i.e. recycling, hybrid cars, CFL’s are all good examples of this lie. The Chevy Volt or the Prius, if you add $5,000 to $8,000 dollars for every unit sold, how many do you think would sell?
Green is the biggest scam of the 21st century.
Missile defense- cut, Zumwald-cut, FCS-cut, F22- cut, retirements-cut, pay and benefits- cut, modernization of our tank fleet-cut... But they have a different type of “green” now that is far more important, all that past tense stuff like hardware to fight wars with, training, and people that doing the fighting is irrelevant.
No- This is Clinton all over again. In 1999 I didn't have enough 203 ammo to train my platoon in Alaska, for a while they cut a 20 year retirement down to 40% base pay, the GI bill eroded to nothing, we didn't get the Interceptor Body Armor (IBA) even though that was available since 1996 (Never heard that mentioned in the MSM when they blame Bush/Rumsfeld for a lack of body armor in Iraq 2003). But I tell you what we did have money for! EEO training and conventions that flew people to Hawaii, AIDS/HIV research paid for with DoD funds... of course there were some back then that thought they “had it right” on this too.
Wars are fought with machines and by people, anything not related to equipping, training, or providing for them, is BS.