The Department of Defense has total girl cooties!! OMG!!
Posted by: Donna
Hat tip to an alert reader who brought this to my attention.
The report, “Reenergizing America’s Defense: How the Armed Forces Are Stepping Forward to Combat Climate Change and Improve U.S. Energy Posture,” details how the department and military services are progressing toward that goal. Amanda J. Dory, deputy assistant secretary of defense for strategy; Navy Secretary Ray Mabus; and John W. Warner, a former Navy secretary, were involved in the report and the conference call.
The decreasing reliance on fossil fuels “will make us better warfighters,” Mabus said, by reducing dependence on oil from volatile nations, and by freeing up warfighters from delivering as much fuel and reducing the high-risk of attacks on convoys that carry it.
In Afghanistan, troops are using solar-powered water purification systems to decrease the use of fossil fuels and the need to haul water, Mabus said. Marines there are using things such as spray-on insulation to keep tents warm in winter and cool in summer, and Marines at Marine Corps Base Quantico in Virginia are testing alternative fuels and other products to reduce the need to ship fuel to Afghanistan, he said.
Whooooooah there! That’s impossible because right wing bloggers and Alan Scott have officially decreed that the military and that hippie girly renewable energy stuff are INCOMPATIBLE. We simply cannot win the War on Terror unless we are, um, relying on fossil fuel from Saudi Arabia and Iran.
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Might be why he is so cranky lately.