High energy demands are compromising military operations, science board finds

[lanlady]

Source: Government Executive

A much-anticipated study of the Defense Department's energy policy and practices concludes that the military's "unnecessarily high and growing" dependence on oil is jeopardizing the success of battlefield operations, risking lives and driving up costs. Additionally, critical national security and homeland defense missions face "an unacceptably high risk of extended outage from failure of the grid," analysts found.

The Defense Science Board task force on energy security released a report this week that criticizes the Pentagon for failing to develop plans to manage its energy risks, despite similar warnings from a previous panel seven years earlier.

"There is no unifying vision, strategy, metrics or governance structure with enterprisewide energy in its portfolio," the report found. Projects to manage energy consumption are limited to compliance with executive orders and legislation, and almost completely limited to facilities and nontactical vehicles. "There are currently few efforts to manage energy demand by operational forces, which consume about three-quarters of DoD energy."

The task force heard more than 100 presentations on technologies that reduced energy consumption, some of which appear very promising. But with no mechanism for determining their operational and economic benefits, the programs are languishing.

Read more: http://govexec.com/dailyfed/0208/022808kp1.htm

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I don't suppose it occurred to them that military operations are the cause of higher energy costs, not the victim?

[jimshoes]

1. You begin your quest for world domination

with the oil you have, not the oil you want or would like to have. Or sumpin' like that eh Rummy?

[Supersedeas]

5. the short-sightedness of the Bushist Regime will haunt us for decades to come

[BeHereNow]

2. It's amazing to me that the public doesn't connect the high costs of gas

with the military consumption...
Am I the only one?

BHN

[Zorra]

3. The US military uses about the same amount of oil every day as the country of Greece.

370,000 barrels per day, 170 million barrels per year.

The US military is the largest purchaser of oil on the planet.

[BeHereNow]

4. And people wonder why gas is so high...

Cause the demand is to fuel the war
we are also paying for with our tax dollars is.
WE pay in taxes AND the at the pump.
What part do the bushbots/hillbots/obamabots good duh'murikkans not understand here?

BHN