Writes a friend: “I know I’m preaching to the choir when I say that I cannot believe that the same government that is eating up fuel at a mind-boggling rate in this ‘war’ is the same government that is supposed to ‘save’ me from ‘big oil’. “My Marine Air Station houses the AV-8B ‘Harrier’. Each Harrier holds about 1,100 gallons of fuel (minimum, up to about 2,300 gallons with external tanks). Every day, groups of four to eight Harriers fly about 10 sortees a day. For ease of calculation, let’s say five Harriers holding 1000 gallons each fly ten sortees … Continue reading Military Gas Guzzlers

Joe Potter asks if anyone has the statistics for the amount of oil use by the pollution-belching US military in its wars and general global dominating. Certainly, along with the Fed-depreciated dollar and neocon sabre-rattling, that is one reason for soaring petro prices here at home. “The price of freedom,” as FOX would say. Actually, the price of empire. If you have those stats, please email me a link and I will blog it for Joe and all of us.