This is about RE (renewable energy) and taking no prisoners.
Republicans suck on so many levels its hard to count:
- Face of party Paul Ryan = legitimate rape, pro personhood,
- every argument they have this year is a lie: O drained Medicare, you didn't build that, all the jobs lost in 08 are O's fault somehow,
- Republicans running up the debt on wars, tax cuts, and Medicare D, all unpaid for and then blaming everyone else for their mess,
- the whole bunch of their leadership snake their way out of wars they hype e.g. butt pimples Rush Limbaugh...
But this year they aren't getting anywhere trashing dems on military matters. Romney and ryan don't have any military clout, and maybe they don't want to talk about Osama bin Laden.
Kick the liars butts. Support Military Power! and make the world a better place and take some House races.
In wartime, soldiers risk their lives protecting the convoys that deliver fossil fuels to the frontlines. The Army Environment Policy Institute found that approximately one U.S. soldier is killed for every 24 fuel resupply convoys sent to the frontline. More specifically, CNN Money reported that “one out of every eight U.S. Army casualties in Iraq was the result of protecting fuel convoys.”
from: Renewable Energy World (
Military Renewables: Why More Than Money is at Stake)
Nevertheless Republicans are true believers and their kneejerk sounds like this:
It would appear that politicians working to promote renewables is the reason the Army is making this move
from: and idiot named Daniel Kish & his
'Army's Logic for Developing Wind and Solar Energy Makes No Sense'
For real. Republicans are trying to talk the Pentagon out of a strategy that will save 1 of 8 military causalities.
This is a strategic and engineering reality (Pentagon to spend $10B) that has far outpaced the VerySerious who ironically rep the Beltway. This is being implemented at bases, in war zones, and in supply chains, like new fuels, and research cash. The reason the RE bomb pencils so well is RE gets cheaper each year and gas costlier, & with all the b.s. you need to do to get that gas, suddenly you're a DFH with a battalion at your command.
The other key quote from that piece, originally posted by Gary Wetzel, a blogger at an RE electric engineering outfit (link) is:
Another astounding statistic is that it currently takes seven gallons of fuel just to transport one gallon to U.S. forces through supply lines. The worst part is that a majority of this fuel is used to power the U.S. forward bases themselves. The use of renewable energy sources at these bases would decrease the number of convoys needed to transport energy, which would ultimately be much less expensive for the U.S. government.
Cutting the military's budget (D) v increasing their budget (R) is not smart politics, even though the
military would prefer to decrease their budget.
here's Romney:
When the biggest announcement in his last State of the Union address on improving our military was that the Pentagon will start using more clean energy – then you know it’s time for a change.
no shit dick tracy
p.s.ifications:
Solar power is down to about 20 cents per kilowatt hour & getting lower. That is whack cheap. Wind energy is down to 7 cents. That's without the PTC. but natural frack gas is keeping the wholesale market at 3 cents, which is the only logic in Rguments about energy. Crazy whack stuff is happening in fuel cell technology, & these are not superlatives. A bureaucracy like the US military is good at doing cost benefit studies. They figured out that RE is the way to go, similar to how they got over segregation a lot faster than the rest of the nation.
DFHs are tough SOBs. I worked on boats with many. Don't let bloward ass pimple redstate whiners punk you on this. or on solyndra.