Single largest consumer of oil in the world : US Military

[Postman]

http://www.energybulletin.net/26194.html


Yes, the US military is completely addicted to oil. Unsurprisingly, its oil consumption for aircraft, ships, ground vehicles and facilities makes the Pentagon the single largest oil consumer in the world. By the way, according to the 2006 CIA World Factbook rankings there are only 35 countries (out of 210) in the world that consume more oil per day than the Pentagon.

[Bluerthanblue]

1. my son's been saying this plays into the sudden crunch-

from the start. Not that there's an endless supply- but we are using an awful lot of oil to fight 'terra'.

peace~

[Ichingcarpenter]

2. I voted for this but you need to put some part of the article in

your original thread before your time runs out.



Just links, doesn't get the exposure that your thread deserves.
I've posted this before from another source a while back.

[DCKit]

3. The Resident must be running a close second.

Air Force One gets used more than my first bike. ~$67,000/hour for AF-1 and the cargo plane (for the limo, and SUVs), for you folks on a tight budget.

When Poppy thought he was "inevitable", he was flying in and out of DC for breakfast, lunch and dinner fund raisers. In between, as the old joke goes, he'd show up for the opening of an envelope.

Of course Bill Clinton would have been drawn and quartered if he'd done that at any time during his two terms.

[PDJane]

4. The US military

Is the world's single largest polluter, too...and that pollution is seriously toxic.

[halliburtonsux]

5. K&R!

n/t

[eridani]

6. If you don't believe the OP, check the price of diesel vs. regular gas

The bottom line is that we can no longer afford to be an imperial power.

[robinlynne]

7. NOw there's an idea. stop both at the same time. That would fix so many wrong things....

[Kolesar]

8. Gasoline rationing would be the obvious technique to support the war effort

Reduce demand, reduce the price, make more oil available for our soldiers, sailors, marines and airmen. Go USA!!!

[lovuian]

9. this folks is exactly why there is a crisis Its all about the

American Empire

We can't have a military out of gas but its coming

[Hydra]

10. hahaha

You don't believe they don't have a backup, do you?

Cutting edge Military tech is 20 years ahead of civilian tech. Easy to say that, but lets consider some of our bleeding edge toys:

Internet: Broadband internet became available to me in 2002...now, -20 years becomes 1982.

Optical chips: We're on the verge of a breakthrough on that in mainstream society. That suggests the Military had them at least 15 years ago...1993.

Fusion: Successful test in 2006:
http://www.china.org.cn/english/2006/Sep/182561.htm

-20 years...1986.

Something to think about, ne?

[Indenturedebtor]

11. Even with a "backup" they'd still have to completely overhaul their machines

That would take years and a couple hundred billion.

[Hydra]

12. Your point?

That's billions we'll be paying them, and they'll already have their strategic items switched over before that point.

Remember all of that rhetoric about "We don't have the money to pay the troops"? The troops get paid last.

[Indenturedebtor]

15. Well for one I don't buy tht the Military is ahead in all things

Following WWII all science funding went through the military. While a lot still does, there are a lot of other avenues.

Alot of the trucks, etc, the Army uses are from the Korean War! How easy do you think it would be to switch over?

The good news is though that other nations won't be able to afford oil to run their militaries either heh.

[Hydra]

16. It's their choice about what they want to use

But I can assure you, I witnessed more than one occasion of them using tech during the 80s that is in still in the prototype stage right now. Whether they decide to show it to us is another matter.

As for switchover, consider that after heavy use, like the occupation going on right now, it's not unusual for the cycle time for vehicles and such to be 2 years or less.

If you think they can't do a mass switchover while having to use petrol that they've stockpiled, think again.

[Heywood J]

14. Fusion has been around longer than that, including the same thing the Chinese did.

That's their first successful test. The trick is getting it to last for any significant length of time, which no one has been able to do. Creating a bright spark is so easy you can actually do it at home, given the inclination and less than $1000.

[Hydra]

17. I'm aware of that, I was using that as a baseline

Be aware that it's likely they had fully operation fusion reactors about when I guessed at- 1986.

Kinda makes you wonder what other tech they have under wraps. I've heard they have optical camouflage, so why not teleporters or lightspeed drives?

[Initech]

13. I've been saying this for years.

Want the price of gas to go down? End the god damn war already!