Posted on 08/18/2006 4:16:21 PM PDT by SandRat
FORT BELVOIR, Va., Aug. 18, 2006 Theres plenty of fuel available to fill the tanks of U.S. military vehicles and aircraft despite widely reported accounts of a commercial oil pipeline rupture in Alaska, a senior Defense Department logistician said here yesterday.
Were in good shape all the time. We have significant fuel reserves. If fuel became locally unavailable,
we could move fuel from elsewhere in the United States to cover DoDs requirements, John S. Bartenhagen Jr., Defense Energy Support Center deputy director for operations, said. |
Related Sites: Defense Energy Support Center |
GAS - GAS - GAS
word in the biz is that there are barges sitting around without any storage to unload into...
All Clear :)
It is just more of the same old crap. We should be used to the scam and the bull excrement by now.
And the Army did run out of gas, once - in 1985. It was embarassing.
True enough. Sensitivity to hurricane season is in the air.
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