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Oil and gasoline are big story topics, on the left and right, in the mainstream press, even on FOX "News." The stories cover the gamut from greenhouse gasses and global warming, to the price at the pump, and the finite amount of oil in the ground.
This story covers an angle that I hadn't considered. It is frankly staggering how much oil is being used in the Iraq War, and thus purchased, expended and belched into the atmosphere. So outside of the human cost of the war in Iraq, we're rapidly worsening several elements of our energy crisis. And we're also adding to the overwhelming amount of money we have to borrow to fund this fiasco.
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US military guzzling 340,000 barrels of oil daily
The skyrocketing price of oil isn't just a burden for American drivers at the gas pump -- it's also a potentially crippling problem for the US military, the nation's number one energy consumer.
The combined branches of the American military burn through a whopping 340,000 barrels of oil a day, reports CNN Pentagon correspondent Barbara Starr. "If you think it's expensive to fill your gas tank," Starr told Situation Room host Wolf Blitzer, "just consider what the military is going through right now."
The combined branches of the American military burn through a whopping 340,000 barrels of oil a day, reports CNN Pentagon correspondent Barbara Starr. "If you think it's expensive to fill your gas tank," Starr told Situation Room host Wolf Blitzer, "just consider what the military is going through right now."
Read on at: Raw Story
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