Senior Pentagon official: Military must reduce use of fossil fuels
The Defense Department's current reliance on expensive, difficult-to-transport and finite fossil fuels affects cost-reduction efforts as well as war-fighting operations, a senior Pentagon official said.
"Certainly, for current operations and for the future, one of the things we're really focused on is reducing demand, (which is) reducing our consumption, because no matter what kind of energy we're using, the amount of energy we're using causes us problems in practice -- particularly in the kinds of fights we're fighting today where so much of our logistics train is in the battlefield," said Sharon Burke, the director of the department's operational energy plans and programs, in a recent "DoDLive" Bloggers roundtable.
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