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Editorial: The Navy's Case for Green Energy

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Editorial: The Navy's Case for Green Energy

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The list of benefits from the U.S. military's green energy initiative begins, simply, with this: It'll save lives.

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By using existing fuel sources more efficiently and developing alternative sources that would require fewer convoys, America's troops will face fewer risks from enemy fire and roadside explosives.

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The Navy's quest is a wise one. As former Secretary of the Navy and former Sen. John Warner, a longtime champion of green programs for the military, put it, "There's a clear nexus between our national security and our energy security."

And the nexus, again, is at the top of that list: It'll save lives.

Read the full editorial, The Navy's Case for Green Energy, on the Virginian-Pilot website.

 

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