{"id":30609,"date":"2012-07-03T13:05:02","date_gmt":"2012-07-03T17:05:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/?p=30609"},"modified":"2012-07-03T19:46:23","modified_gmt":"2012-07-03T23:46:23","slug":"fair-winds-and-green-seas","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=30609","title":{"rendered":"Fair Winds and “Green” Seas . . . ."},"content":{"rendered":"

Remember that $26.75-per-gallon “green” biofuel that the Navy was talking about using a few months ago<\/a>? Well, don’t worry – the Navy got a price break on the stuff.\u00a0 It won’t cost that much.<\/p>\n

It’s now going for “only” $26-per-gallon.\u00a0 And that’s good, because the Navy just announced it will soon use a bunch of it.<\/p>\n

Per published accounts<\/a>, this month the Navy will send 5 ships to participate in a multinational exercise off the coast of Hawaii. They will be fueled, at least in part, by the stuff. Ain’t progress wonderful?<\/p>\n

By comparison, standard petroleum fuels of the same type are going for about $3.60 a gallon.\u00a0 The new fuel therefore “only” costs about 722% as much as the fuel it replaces. (No, I didn’t miss a decimal point there – it actually does cost more than 7 times as much as standard ship fuel.) <\/p>\n

But I guess cost doesn’t matter that much when you’re spending someone else’s money. And just think – you’re also helping to save the planet! Even though the new “green” fuel produces just as much in terms of greenhouse gases as the fuel it replaces – plus whatever was necessary to generate the energy used to produce the stuff from “seeds, algae, and chicken fat”.<\/p>\n

No, I’m not making this sh*t up.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Remember that $26.75-per-gallon “green” biofuel that the Navy was talking about using a few months ago? … Fair Winds and “Green” Seas . . . .<\/span>Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":623,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-30609","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-politics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30609","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/623"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=30609"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30609\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=30609"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=30609"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=30609"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}