Admiral (retired) Dennis McGinn said:
“A nation that uses more than 20 percent of the oil that is produced globally every single year, that sits on at best estimates 3 percent of the known reserves cannot drill its way out of the situation of energy insecurity that we’re in.”
This quote from 2012, demonstrates shortsightedness and narrowness of thinking, similar to Malthusian thought that has been disproved countless times.
Today, the United States has the potential to become self sufficient in oil, if not alone, then with its strategic partner, Canada.
And he also said:
“At home, military bases that are self-sustaining are cheaper and more secure than those dependent on, say, natural gas pipelines or the local utility.”
Wrong again, because the United States has also become self sufficient in natural gas, with at least a 100-year supply. Natural gas is also the cheapest method for generating electricity … bar none.
Executive Order 13514, issued by the President in 2009, established marching orders for the Department of Defense (DOD) that required it to embrace alternative energy, with an emphasis on cutting CO2 emissions.
“The goal of EO 13514 is to establish an integrated strategy towards sustainability in the Federal Government and to make reduction of greenhouse gas emissions (GHG) a priority for Federal agencies,” as reported in Fed Center.gov.
In August 2010, DOD issued a Strategic Sustainability Performance Plan (SSPP) that was intended to comply with Executive Order 13514.
Since then, the military has instituted many efforts to develop alternatives to fossil fuels and has spent hundreds of millions of dollars that should have been spent on weapons and on salaries for our service men and women.
There is also the myth that renewable liquid fuels can be sourced around the world, when it’s been proven it’s virtually impossible to produce biofuels that cost less than fossil fuels domestically … and there is zero proof that biofuels can be produced worldwide in required volumes and at a lower cost than gasoline, fuel oil or jet fuel.
Implementing Executive Order 13514, and forcing the adoption of so-called clean energy on the military through DOD’s SSPP is harming our ability to defend the United States.
Every organization should reduce its costs with sound investments, but insulating buildings at a cost that can’t be recovered within a few years is wasteful, and diverts funds from important needs. Yet this is one of the activities lauded in a Pew report, From the Barracks to the Battlefield, Clean Energy Innovation and America’s Armed Forces.
And here is what the left thinks about the military, as quoted from IntelligentUtility in its article, National security depends on EE & RE, not drilling.
“Politicians and the military have colluded for generations to hype threats, keep the military budget bloated beyond reason, sell unneeded, dysfunctional technologies to the American public and maintain a mutually lucrative revolving door between the two sectors that perpetuates these practices.”
This insults every American who has served in the military, including executives in America’s most progressive and efficient companies who provide the materiel needed to fight and win wars.
Executive order 13514 was replaced with executive order 13693 in March 2015.
“The goal of EO 13693 is to maintain Federal leadership in sustainability and greenhouse gas emission reductions,” as reported in Fed Center.gov.
All of this has been brought to the forefront again with “a new directive ordering the establishment of a new layer of bureaucracy — a wide array of ‘climate change boards, councils and working groups’ to infuse climate change into programs, plans and policies.”
The directive tells military combat commanders:
“Incorporate climate change impacts into plans and operations and integrate DOD guidance and analysis in Combatant Command planning to address climate change-related risks and opportunities across the full range of military operations, including steady-state campaign planning and operations and contingency planning.”
And, climate change must be integrated in:
- Weapons buying and testing “across the life cycle of weapons systems, platforms and equipment.”
- Training ranges and capabilities.
- Defense intelligence surveillance and reconnaissance.
- Defense education and training.
- Combatant commander joint training with allies to “assess the risks to U.S. security interests posed by climate change.”
Thus, we have the Great Green Fleet, Biofuels and other wasteful efforts. See Green Fleet Nonsense.
There now is a track record, beginning with Executive Order 13514, issued in 2009, up through today, of how the administration is putting Americans at risk so as to perpetuate its climate change narrative.
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From Chapter 10, of Nothing to Fear: “The possibility of producing biofuels economically and in required quantities seems remote … if not absurd.”
Nothing to Fear is available from Amazon and some independent book sellers.
Link to Amazon: http://amzn.to/1miBhXy
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