Seems the some forty years of the special interests blocking of alternative green and clean energy sources are hitting the huge bumps they should have decades back. Now finally the meme's aren't working so their bought political pols are trying to make legislation, law, to stop the advancement of the growth industry and all the offshoot businesses along with the innovative economic growth that would only develop and grow. We already should be leading the planet in these industries, instead those that once envied, not long ago, what we had built and were building economically are now leading and moving rapidly away from us. They now have the experienced innovative trades we gave them, we on the other hand have lost all that once experience and ability then to give hands on training for the needed new generations of and what they would bring in new idea's and R&D.
May 14, 2012 - On Monday, the U.S. Navy will officially announce the ships for its demonstration of the “Great Green Fleet” — an entire aircraft carrier strike group powered by biofuels and other eco-friendly energy sources. If a powerful congressional panel has its way, it could be the last time the Navy ever uses biofuels to run its ships and jets.
In its report on next year’s Pentagon budget, the House Armed Services Committee banned the Defense Department from making or buying an alternative fuel that costs more than a “traditional fossil fuel.” It’s a standard that may be almost impossible to meet, energy experts believe; there’s almost no way the tiny, experimental biofuel industry can hope to compete on price with the massive, century-old fossil fuels business.
Committee Republicans, like Rep. Randy Forbes, insist this isn’t an attempt to kill off military biofuels before they have a chance to start. “Now, look, I love green energy,” he said in February. “It’s a matter of priorities.”
But if the measure becomes law, it would make it all-but-inconceivable for the Pentagon to buy the renewable fuels. It would likely scuttle one of the top priorities of Navy Secretary Ray Mabus. And it might very well suffocate the gasping biofuel industry, which was looking to the Pentagon to help it survive. read more>>>
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