Posted on 02/15/2012 12:14:22 PM PST by jazusamo
".....Spearheaded by Ray Mabus, President Obamas secretary of the Navy and the former U.S. ambassador to Saudi Arabia, the Navy and Marines are building a strategy for out-greening Al Qaeda, out-greening the Taliban and out-greening the worlds petro-dictators. Their efforts are based in part on a recent study from 2007 data that found that the U.S. military loses one person, killed or wounded, for every 24 fuel convoys it runs in Afghanistan. Today, there are hundreds and hundreds of these convoys needed to truck fuel to run air-conditioners and power diesel generators to remote bases all over Afghanistan.
Mabuss argument is that if the U.S. Navy and Marines could replace those generators with renewable power and more energy efficient buildings, and run its ships on nuclear energy, biofuels and hybrid engines, and fly its jets with bio-fuels, then it could out-green the Taliban the best way to avoid a roadside bomb is to not have vehicles on the roads and out-green all the petro-dictators now telling the world what to do."
Thanks for the ping. Finally, a shipnaming that makes sense.
Amen! All three of these brave men deserved it.
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