Submitted by unsettling economics
The Wall Street Journal has an article suggesting that the military consumes 340,000 barrels of oil a day, compared to Iraq’s 2.4 million; and that the Defense Department paid $13.6 billion for energy in 2006. I suspect that these figures would be what uniformed personnel consumed. Maybe somebody here knows, but I […]

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Submitted by CARPE DIEM

ANWR’s frozen desolation looks like:
ANWR’s 10.4 billion barrels of oil have become hostage to the planet’s saviors (e.g., John McCain, Hillary Clinton, Barack Obama), who block drilling in even a tiny patch of ANWR. You could fit Massachusetts, New Jersey, Rhode Island, Connecticut and Delaware into ANWR’s frozen desolation (see bottom picture); […]

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