Sunday, December 11, 2011
Over the past six years of war, the expense of delivering fuel to America’s fighting machine in remote parts of Afghanistan has increased 50-fold.
It now costs on average of $400 a gallon to keep planes, tanks and other fuel-dependent machinery moving.
Captain Zack Albaugh, a California Air National Guard pilot who helps fly gasoline to rural bases, explained to The Wall Street Journal that the U.S. Air Force has to “burn a lot of gas to drop a lot of gas,”
The expense of trekking fuel to parts of Afghanistan has prompted the Department of Defense to consider alternative methods of energizing the armed forces, including the use of solar power, wind turbines and biofuels.
-Noel Brinkerhoff
U.S.'s Afghan Headache: $400-a-Gallon Gasoline (by Nathan Hodge, Wall Street Journal)
Pentagon Goes Solar in War (by Noel Brinkerhoff, AllGov)
Pentagon Explores Alternative Energy to Save Lives (by Noel Brinkerhoff, AllGov)
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