Pentagon is the World's Biggest Consumer of Petroleum

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Pentagon Fuel Use, Climate Change, and the Costs of War

The U.S. Department of Defense is the largest institutional consumer of fossil fuels in the world and a key contributor to climate change.

Between 2001 and 2017, the years for which data is available since the beginning of the war on
terrorism with the U.S. invasion of Afghanistan, the U.S. military emitted 1.2 billion metric tons of
greenhouse gases. More than 400 million metric tons of greenhouse gases are directly due to war-related fuel consumption. The largest portion of Pentagon fuel consumption is for military jets.

These estimates are based on data from the Department of Energy because the Pentagon withholds fuel consumption data from Congress. The U.S. military has begun to decrease greenhouse gas emissions, but there is room for much steeper cuts.

Source: https://costsofwar.watson.brown.edu/paper/pentagon-fuel-use-climate-change-and-costs-war

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