US Navy defends 'great green fleet' from Republican attacks

[Eugene]

Source: The Guardian

US Navy defends 'great green fleet' from Republican attacks

Navy secretary and Obama administration move to head off
spending bill that would effectively shut down biofuels project

Suzanne Goldenberg, US environment correspondent
guardian.co.uk, Friday 20 July 2012 11.59 BST

The US Navy has gone into battle to save its "great green fleet" from Republicans in Congress who are trying to sink the ambitious biofuel project in what should have been its finest hour.

The aircraft carrier USS Nimitz and a strike force of 71 jet fighters, helicopters and transport planes, set off on a demonstration voyage off the Hawaiian island of Oahu this week, powered by a 50-50 mix of conventional fuels and algae or cooking oil.

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But the voyage that should have been the pinnacle of the navy's green aspirations instead found the Pentagon and Obama administration fending off Republican attacks on the biofuels project.

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Read more: http://www.guardian.co.uk/environment/2012/jul/20/us-navy-great-green-fleet-republicans

[Lawlbringer]

1. Do they just want to burn all of the dwindling fossil fuels

and blame the Democrats when it finally runs out?

That sounds about right.


If this wasn't so freaking serious, I'd really love to see everything go to crap just to say I told you so. But since it is, it's worth fighting for.

[GreenPartyVoter]

2. Go, Navy!

[Bonhomme Richard]

3. Just another example of short sighted repugs. n/t