Thread: When You Learn How Much The Pentagon Paid For “Green” Fuel, It’ll Make You Sick!

When You Learn How Much The Pentagon Paid For “Green” Fuel, It’ll Make You Sick!

By Steve Straub On May 8, 2014 · 74 Comments · In US



This it lunacy, $225,000 for jet fuel that should have cost $4,320. In the “real world” the person responsible would lose their job!

Via Fox News
The Department of Defense paid $150 per gallon for alternative jet fuel made from algae, more than 64 times the current market price for standard carbon-based fuels, according to a report released on Wednesday.
The Government Accountability Office noted in its report that a Pentagon official reported paying “about $150 per gallon for 1,500 gallons of alternative jet fuel derived from algal oil.”
GAO’s report examined the financial challenges facing increased purchases and use of alternative jet fuels by federal agencies. “Currently, the price for alternative jet fuels exceeds that of conventional jet fuel,” the report noted.
The price for conventional jet fuel is currently $2.88 per gallon. GAO’s report reveals that federal agencies have paid significantly higher prices in an effort to promote biofuels in commercial and military aviation.
“Of the two alternative jet-fuel production processes approved for use in commercial and military aircraft (Fischer-Tropsch and HEFA), DOD, according to a DOD official, paid from about $3 to $150 per gallon,” GAO reported.
Do you think the person responsible for this will lose their job or, since this is a government operation, will they get a promotion?

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somebody needs to be in prison; muck losing their job, this is Racketeering

Joe the Plumber

Here is just a peak of the rampant stupidity of government spending... This makes me sick when I think about how my taxes are WASTED!!!!



Pentagon Pays $150 per Gallon for Green Algae Fuel

Pentagon official reported paying “about $150 per gallon for 1,500 gallons of alternative jet fuel derived from algal oil.” GAO’s report examined the financ ...

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Pentagon Pays $150 per Gallon for Green Algae Fuel

Posted by Joe For America on May 8, 2014 in Military, Politics, Taxes



The Department of Defense (DOD) paid $150 per gallon for alternative jet fuel made from algae, more than 64 times the current market price for standard carbon-based fuels, according to a report released on Wednesday.

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The Government Accountability Office (GAO) noted in its report that a Pentagon official reported paying “about $150 per gallon for 1,500 gallons of alternative jet fuel derived from algal oil.”
GAO’s report examined the financial challenges facing increased purchases and use of alternative jet fuels by federal agencies. “Currently, the price for alternative jet fuels exceeds that of conventional jet fuel,” the report noted.
The price for conventional jet fuel is currently $2.88 per gallon. GAO’s report reveals that federal agencies have paid significantly higher prices in an effort to promote biofuels in commercial and military aviation.
“Of the two alternative jet-fuel production processes approved for use in commercial and military aircraft (Fischer-Tropsch and HEFA), DOD, according to a DOD official, paid from about $3 to $150 per gallon,” GAO reported.
HEFA is an acronym for Hydroprocessed Esters and Fatty Acids, and refers to “renewable oil (e.g., vegetable oils, animal fat, waste grease, and algae oil) … processed using hydrogen treatment (hydroprocessing) to yield a fuel in the distillation range of jet fuel and diesel.”
GAO interviewed 23 “academic, federal government, and private industry stakeholders” about challenges facing the increased adoption of alternative jet fuels. Twenty-two of them cited the fuels’ exorbitant costs.
“Five of these stakeholders noted that for fuel produced using the HEFA production process, the cost of some types of feedstock—even before it is transported or converted—currently exceeds that of conventional fuel,” the report says.
HEFA and other alternative jet fuels are currently produced in large measure by small firms that do not have the economies of scale to manufacture them in a cost-effective way.
To address that problem, federal agencies have been buying extremely expensive alternative fuels as a means of subsidizing those firms.
“Some stakeholders (5 of 23) elaborated that since most fuel producers are generally companies with limited funds and small-scale operations, it is extremely costly for them to produce fuel in large quantities,” the report noted.
Purchasing HEFA fuels, some stakeholders said, would allow those businesses to grow their operations and, eventually, market alternative jet fuels at a lower price.
However, those HEFA fuels will still need to be subsidized to be competitive, GAO noted, citing a recent Federal Aviation Administration study.
“Alternative jet fuels produced on a commercial scale using the HEFA process would require a subsidy of $0.35 to $2.86 per gallon to be price-competitive with conventional jet fuels in 2020,” the report found.


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Pentagon Blows $150 Per Gallon On ‘Green’ Jet Fuel

May 9, 2014 by Sam Rolley

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If the United States military is forced to respond to a threat by blowing things up from the air, Americans can take comfort in the fact that the death and destruction is being carried out with minimal impact to the environment.
The Department of Defense has paid as much as $150 per gallon to purchase jet fuel made from algae, according to the findings of a new Government Accountability Office report. The cost for the environmentally friendly jet fuel is 64 times the current market price for conventional carbon-based fuels, which run about $2.88 per gallon.
In compliance with Barack Obama Administration efforts to eliminate greenhouse gas production at all levels of government, one Pentagon official told the GAO that the Nation’s taxpayers had doled out “about $150 per gallon for 1,500 gallons of alternative jet fuel derived from algal oil.”
According to the report, there are currently two accepted alternatives to conventional jet fuel that the government purchases for use in military aircraft.
“Of the two alternative jet-fuel production processes approved for use in commercial and military aircraft (Fischer-Tropsch and HEFA), DOD, according to a DOD official, paid from about $3 to $150 per gallon,” GAO reported.
HEFA, or Hydroprocessed Esters and Fatty Acids, is “renewable oil (e.g., vegetable oils, animal fat, waste grease, and algae oil) … processed using hydrogen treatment (hydroprocessing) to yield a fuel in the distillation range of jet fuel and diesel.”
Interviewing 23 “academic, federal government, and private industry stakeholders,” the GAO found that the raw materials needed for the production of the new fuel “even before it is transported or converted–currently exceeds that of conventional fuel.”
The Pentagon and other government agencies buying the exorbitantly priced alternative fuels serves as a way for the government to subsidize the companies working to produce the fuels.
“Alternative jet fuels produced on a commercial scale using the HEFA process would require a subsidy of $0.35 to $2.86 per gallon to be price-competitive with conventional jet fuels in 2020,” the report said.

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