In the wake of the Defense Department releasing its new climate change adaptation policy, the Navy is kicking off its year-long energy saving initiative.
Through 2016 the Navy will participate in the Great Green Fleet (GGF), where ships, aircraft, amphibious and expeditionary forces will use energy efficient systems, procedures and alternative fuel for their missions.
“The Department of Defense is one of the largest users of fossil fuels on earth, and the Navy is a little more than a third of that usage. So when I took this job seven years ago I made energy a priority not because of how much we buy and its impact on our budget,” Navy Secretary Ray Mabus said Jan. 20 in San Diego, California. “I made it a priority because of how much it impacts our combat capabilities and the costs that our fuel use was imposing on our sailors and Marines. In fact, according to one study we were losing a Marine for every 50 fuel convoys in Afghanistan — far too high a price to pay.”
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Wow , what an idiot .
ReplyDeleteIs this the same gang who had a biofuel initiative a few years back that cost five or ten times what it should have?
ReplyDeleteAnd another question. Does the exhaust smell like burgers cooking?