U.S. Lawmaker Pleads for Energy Savings (astonishing Iraq war energy use statistics)

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U.S. Lawmaker Pleads for Energy Savings

By WILLIAM MATTHEWS

It was 2005 when Rep. Roscoe Bartlett, R-Md., began warning that the world is running out of oil. At the time, petroleum cost $40 a barrel.

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Consider these Bartlett statistics:

• Daily fuel consumption per deployed troop in combat has increased from 1.7 gallons during World War II to 27.3 gallons during the second Persian Gulf war.
• Fuel accounts for 70 percent of war-fighting logistics supplies by weight. Convoys of tanker trucks are needed to keep combat vehicles, support vehicles and operating base generators running. Protection for fuel convoys diverts troops from combat operations. Convoys create operational vulnerabilities, and reliance on convoys constrains force movement.

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