{"id":7646,"date":"2011-12-13T14:30:07","date_gmt":"2011-12-13T19:30:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/junkscience.com\/?p=7646"},"modified":"2015-11-01T14:43:03","modified_gmt":"2015-11-01T19:43:03","slug":"gop-allows-enviros-to-dictate-dod-fuels","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/junkscience.com\/2011\/12\/gop-allows-enviros-to-dictate-dod-fuels\/","title":{"rendered":"GOP allows enviros to dictate DoD fuels"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Aside from the absurdity of anti-American greens dictating defense policy, Congressional Republicans also apparently feel that it&#8217;s much better to buy oil from OPEC than from Canada or U.S. producers.<!--more--><\/p>\n<p><em>Greenwire<\/em> reports,<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>After months of debate and sustained campaigns from trade organizations, environmentalists and veterans groups, next year&#8217;s defense bill emerged from conference last night without a House-passed provision repealing a 2007 ban on government purchase of dirty fuels.<\/p>\n<p>The issue &#8212; whether the U.S. government should be forbidden from purchasing fuels with a higher lifetime greenhouse gas footprint than traditional petroleum &#8212; has come up in a number of spending bills this year. But it has struck an especially strong chord as it relates to the Defense Department, the government&#8217;s largest purchaser of fuel.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;From our point of view, this is a real win for advanced biofuels and helping DOD shield itself from future price shocks, and helping to make the nation more secure,&#8221; said Phyllis Cuttino, director of the Pew Environmental Group&#8217;s clean energy program. <strong>Her group and others supporting the ban say it is a key driver in the military&#8217;s work on alternative fuels and an important signal to investors.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>But those who urge repeal of the ban say it places a burden on the military, whose job is to fight and win wars, not improve the environment&#8230;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>The purpose of the 2007 energy bill provision was to prevent the military from purchasing products refined from tar sands or coal-to-liquids processing.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/junkscience.com\/2008\/02\/28\/candidates-fail-energy-independence-test\/\">For background on this issue, read Steve Milloy&#8217;s FoxNews.com column &#8220;Candidates Fail Energy Independence Test.&#8221;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Aside from the absurdity of anti-American greens dictating defense policy, Congressional Republicans also apparently feel that it&#8217;s much better to buy oil from OPEC than from Canada or U.S. producers.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[53,74],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-7646","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-climate-energy","category-green-hell"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p6SqJi-1Zk","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/junkscience.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7646","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/junkscience.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/junkscience.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/junkscience.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/junkscience.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7646"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/junkscience.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7646\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/junkscience.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7646"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/junkscience.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7646"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/junkscience.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7646"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}