CleanTechnica EVs

AUGUST 16, 2021

I recall 9/11 vividly, as many Americans do. I was going into a morning sociology class in college. Everyone was glued to the TV — New York City’s Twin Towers had been destroyed from terrorists flying planes into them, another was soon flown into the Pentagon. As I’ve learned since then, almost everyone was shocked […].

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Green Car Congress

MARCH 10, 2012

The Operational Energy Strategy outlines a three-fold approach: More Fight, Less Fuel: Reduce Demand for Energy in Military Operations; More Options, Less Risk: Expand and Secure Energy Supplies for Military Operations; and More Capability, Less Cost: Build Energy Security into the Future Force. More Fight, Less Fuel.

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Energy Afghanistan 2012 Alternative Fuels 247

Plugs and Cars

MARCH 3, 2011

military still hasn't found a way to staunch the flow of what is likely hundreds of millions -- if not billions -- of dollars in lost fuel in Afghanistan, some of which is sold on the black market and winds up in Taliban hands, a TPM investigation has found. After nearly a decade of mismanagement, theft and fraud, the U.S.

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Creative Greenius

NOVEMBER 11, 2013

While we honor today the service, sacrifice and loss of all our military members, there was no threat to our homeland, our freedom or our democracy from the North Koreans, the North Vietnamese, the Cambodians, the Iraqis, or the Afghanistan people. October 24, 2009 South Bay Los Angeles Climate Action, Manhattan Beach.

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Plugs and Cars

OCTOBER 6, 2010

ISLAMABAD, Pakistan — Dozens of tankers carrying fuel to Afghanistan for NATO troops were torched near Quetta in western Pakistan on Wednesday, the third major attack on supplies since Pakistan closed one border crossing to Afghanistan a week ago and the first at the only checkpoint that remained open. Source: NY Times

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Green Car Congress

APRIL 30, 2009

For every kJ of chemical energy in the fuel for a spark ignition internal combustion engine, 73 % is sacrificed to chemical and thermal losses. How did the high fuel prices impact customer behavior in 2008? Department of Defense and Fuel Economy. billion/year to the DOD’s fuel bill. Braking losses add another 6%.

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Green Cars News

APRIL 26, 2009

The desert base acts as a house for the Army’s premier training centre for troops that will be deployed in Iraq and Afghanistan. It has also become a testing ground for a number of green initiatives that could save the services millions - not to mention lives too, given the frequency with which fuel convoys are targeted.

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