The GOP is fighting the military tooth and nail over alternative fuels, new generation batteries, solar and wind generation both fixed and battle field portable.
The Pentagon recently answered why is it bucking the GOP and finding friends with Democrats on this issue?
1) supply lines are always stretching, expensive, manpower intensive, and easy targets.
2) fuel costs keep going up, solar and wind are a fixed cost.
3) the US grid is (according to the Pentagon) now untrustworthy, power outages in the US are increasing at an alarming rate due to weather events and age and condition of equipment.
4) global warming is bringing more challenges around the world for moving fuel and acquiring energy of all types.
Yet, the fossil fuel owned GOP is blocking as often as possible every effort to save US soldiers lives and make our missions easier. They have to, their multi-national owners demand it. Hell, they are even blocking insulating some buildings on bases in the US, anything to use energy.
I'll go you one better, on number 2. Isn't there at least the potential for costs to be going down, with solar and wind?
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DeleteWell, the cost of solar and wind are going down all the time as production costs and advance in technology improve. But that cost is for the initial purchase of the equipment. Once you buy it the cost is all but fixed for the expected life which is 20 to 40 years. No fuel will be purchased to run it, that unknown is out. Thats why they say what they do, they know (within a small variable for houskeeping) the cost of their electricity for 30 years out. And it doesn't include burned oil trucks and dead soldiers in the mountain passes or $400 a gallon diesel flown in 5,000 miles.
Ah, good point. ; )
DeleteA couple months after Gabby Giffords got shot, the reich-wingnut circle-jerk echo chamber was circulating an e-mail basically saying she deserved to be shot because she dissed Gen. Petraeus. She had the nerve to ask him what the military was doing about using alternative energy to reduce the need to haul all that fuel for the generators.
ReplyDeleteI got that e-mail from a relative that's retarded military(after 20yrs, most come out retarded). I replied that he was a Fucking Idiot and blocked all future e-mails.
I've got some relatives like that to, and some were never in at all, others one term. At least my old friend Sarge got out with most his ability to recognize facts and to think critically, except when he sees the back side of a women.
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