Govt's not working like it's supposed to any more...
Navy moves ahead on biofuels despite congressional ire
Date: 08-Jul-12
http://planetark.org/wen/65861
Author: David Alexander, Susan Cornwell and Roberta Rampton
The Pentagon is pushing ahead with a $420 million effort to build refineries to make competitively priced biofuels, despite anger in Congress over the price the Navy paid for alternative fuel to test a carrier strike group this month. ...
Obama's opponents see the military's green energy push as another attempt by the White House to promote alternative fuels even if they don't make economic sense, as in the case of the government-funded solar panel maker Solyndra, which went bankrupt last year.
President Obama is "pressing forward with his plan to force the DoD (Department of Defense) to spend $30 million on its so-called green fleet, all while he's gutting our military," Inhofe said in a statement provided to Reuters. ...