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Teaming up with the Department of Agriculture (which has a cheery Rotary Club ring to it), the Navy has purchased 450,000 gallons of biofuel for about $16 a gallon, or about 4 times the price of its standard marine fuel, JP-5, which has been going for under $4 a gallon. You won’t be surprised to learn that a member of Obama’s presidential transition team, T. J. Glauthier, is a “strategic advisor” at Solazyme, the California company that is selling a portion of the biofuel to the Navy. Glauthier worked – shock, shock – on the energy-sector portion of the 2009...

TULSA, Okla. -- Montana Gov. Brian Schweitzer visited a demonstration plant that converts natural gas into synthetic diesel fuel and said the process could help wean the country off foreign oil. This technology could also be used to make diesel fuel from coal, which is in abundance in Montana. "The country has two options for energy until we build a bridge to a hydrogen economy," Schweitzer said in a visit Wednesday to the Syntroleum Corp. plant. "We can either continue to give money to dictators who want to destroy our way of life, or we can provide tens of thousands...