IER President Thomas Pyle sent a letter today to Navy Secretary Ray Mabus criticizing the use of experimental biofuels by a carrier strike group in the Pacific ocean.
Pyle also informed Mabus of his request for Congress to initiate an “immediate, exhaustive, and unyielding” investigation of the abuse of taxpayer dollars represented by the Navy’s biofuel experiment, called “The Great Green Fleet” be defense department officials.
“The Navy Department’s claim that the U.S. possesses only 2 percent of the world’s oil reserves is a vast understatement of our real domestic energy potential at best, and an intentional distortion at worst. A recent report from the U.S. Geological Survey indicates that the U.S. possesses at least 26 percent of the world’s oil supply, leading top policymakers to call the President’s claims “less than honest,”” Pyle wrote.
