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GOP End US Military's Bid To Go Green?
A recent report by Forbe's magazine drescribed that, as a result of the GOP takeover of the US House of Representatives, the national policy on biofuels might be changing, and that's not good news for biofuel manufacturers. Current policy puts incentives in place to boost the biofuel industry, based on the use of "blender credits" to foster the combining of biofuels with gasoline. Republicans want to end those incentives. Also recently, the US Navy unveiled a new watercraft, the RCB-X, a Naval 49-foot Riverine Command Boat that runs on biofuel made out of algae.
And that's not the only biofuel ship in the fleet. According to wired.com, Navy vessels use around 80,000 barrels of oil a day, and the Department of Defense wants biofuels and nuclear energy to cut that amount in half by 2020. These two stories coming so close together beg the question: will the new Republican Congress stall, or even ruin the US Military's chances at meeting their goal of energy independence? Going green is not a reflection of the US Military suddenly turning into tree-hugging liberals. Current assessments of the world's diminishing fossil fuel supplies plus added pressure from competing countries for those reserves have made Military leaders come to only one logical conclusion, that they need to switch to alternative energies--the more renewable the better. Not only is having a diverse, sustainable power supply good for the planet, it also is sound national defense strategy. But the Republican plan to eliminate manufacturer incentives might seriously affect the military's plans by making it more costly for private sector companies to produce the biofuel. The plans now only speak of ethanol, but who knows if the GOP will view all biofuels the same when it comes to cutting the subsidies? Currently the Navy contracts with outside companies for their supply of algae fuel, and the incentive policy helps to fund the testing and development. DARPA (Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency) in early 2010 announced that their research projects were on the verge of producing algae biofuel at the same cost of its fossil fuel counterpart, a step that would finally make it a viable option. But an end to private company incentives might end the research. Will the new GOP policy put it all into jeopardy?
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