Pentagon Prioritizes Pursuit Of Alternative Fuel Sources (SPF Reference)
By Steve Vogel
Washington Post Staff Writer
Monday, April 13, 2009; Page A13
For the Defense Department, the largest consumer of energy in the United States, addiction to fuel has greater costs than the roughly $18 billion the agency spent on it last year.
By some estimates, about half of the U.S. military casualties in Iraq and Afghanistan are related to attacks with improvised explosive devices on convoys, many of which are carrying fuel. As of March 20, 3,426 service members had been killed by hostile fire in Iraq, 1,823 of them victims of IEDs...