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Thursday, 08 May 2014
Your tax dollars at work: Pentagon paid $150 per gallon for "green" jet fuel
Green energy costs the taxpayers a lot of green.
The Department of Defense paid $150 per gallon for alternative jet fuel made from algae, more than 64 times the current market price for standard carbon-based fuels, according to a report released on Wednesday.
The Government Accountability Office noted in its report that a Pentagon official reported paying "about $150 per gallon for 1,500 gallons of alternative jet fuel derived from algal oil."
Regular jet fuel runs about $2.88 per gallon. Which leads GAO to drily conclude … "Currently, the price for alternative jet fuels exceeds that of conventional jet fuel."
Ya don't say!
Left out of the GAO report is why the Pentagon is buying this overpriced snake oil in the first place.
Did you guess Obama Administration mandate?
Of course you did.
Posted at 15:21 by Chris Wysocki
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