Don’t forget that green fuel is better than health care for veterans as they must wait for care and die doing it.
Just more Democrat money laundering.
I know where I can get some 100+ octane for about $7.00/gal here in Reno. :>} Just sayin’.
Navy Takes Biofuels Campaign Into Uncharted Waters
Since 2006, the Defense Logistics Agency has procured more than 36 million gallons of ethanol-and-petroleum blends for the military. The Navy in September ordered an additional 150,000 gallons of algae-based fuel from San Francisco company Solazyme. The new agreement is seven times the size of the initial 20,000-gallon contract awarded last year. The Navy is paying big bucks for these fuels.
The service consumes an average of 1.2 billion gallons of petroleum each year at a cost of $3 billion about $2.50 per gallon. The service paid Solazyme $8.5 million to provide just 20,000 gallons of algae-based fuel $425 per gallon. At that rate, it would cost the Navy some $142.8 billion for the 8 million barrels of biofuel needed to meet its 2020 goal.
Camelina-based fuel is a bit cheaper but still more expensive than petroleum. In September 2009 the DLAs defense energy support center paid Montanas Sustainable Oils $2.7 million for 40,000 gallons of camelina-based fuel. That comes to about $67.50 per gallon.
Meh. I’m not particularly happy about the “green” part of it, but I would fully expect our military to conduct expensive experiments with alternate fuels which could be utilized in a resource-constricted conflict.
Apparently some of the people complaining about this skipped history class and don’t know that having options like this would have been a huge boon in WWII.
Yup, just got my “your SGLI premium’s going up two bucks” email this morning. It’s still a helluva deal at $28 a month.