The DemocRATS just looking out for their envirobuddie$ again. They owe them big time for 2012.
Some buddy’s making some pretty significant walking around money in this whole scheme. Follow the money.
The question needs to be asked, who is getting money from these companies? What is the connection between those who set up this scam and the owners of the companies?
Bump
Insanity
It darn near exceeds the price of perfume.
Socialism Is Legal Plunder - The Law; Bastiat
Everything about socialism is sham and affectation. - 23.11 Ch23 Evil; Economic Harmonies; Bastiat
Logical for testing purposes. Otherwise, idiotic.
Was it dolphin safe?
I’m actually familiar with one of the truckers that hauled this stuff from the midwest to Langley AFB, VA. He had an armed escort follow him the whole way.
Going to need to recalculate the exact cost of those Obama flights.
Yep, cut troop strength, closed the commissaries, cut housing allowance, all to pay super-duper premium prices for jet and ship fuel that is “green.” And how much do you want to bet that it is Obama’s environmental loving rich buddies who are making that fuel he is having the military buy?
| 100LL Avgas | Jet A | Mogas (auto) | |||||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| FBOs | FBOs | Avg | Min | Max | FBOs | Avg | Min | Max | FBOs | Avg | Min | Max | |
| Nationwide | 3603 | 3509 | $5.97 | $4.39 | $10.85 | 2512 | $5.47 | $3.79 | $9.51 | 111 | $4.61 | $3.78 | $7.55 |
No the pentagon did not you me and all the rest of us producers taxpayers did
Green energy is just another way of plundering the tax payers. A whole lot of someones should go to prison for waste like that.
Active Duty ping.
The government doesn’t have to eat its own cooking.
The Pentagon pays an average of $400 to put a gallon of fuel into a combat vehicle or aircraft in Afghanistan.
Pentagon officials have told the House Appropriations Defense Subcommittee a gallon of fuel costs the military about $400 by the time it arrives in the remote locations in Afghanistan where U.S. troops operate.
http://thehill.com/homenews/administration/63407-400gallon-gas-another-cost-of-war-in-afghanistan-
A big issue for the Pentagon these days is supply lines that are stretched expensive and vulnerable. It would be better if they could produce energy on the spot rather than ship it long distance. So while $150 per gallon is bad ==$400@ gallon is worse.
(of course they’re not there yet. and by the time the biofuel production plant gets to the point where it can be dropped into remote US base somewhere —the US participation in the afghan war will be over... that said there will be other wars to come.)
That’s our Big Gubby!!
Stupid.....
You can bet your ass that whatever company this fuel was purchased from were big democrat contributors.
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 DLA’s defense energy support center paid Montana’s Sustainable Oils $2.7 million for 40,000 gallons of camelina-based fuel. That comes to about $67.50 per gallon.