{"id":35424,"date":"2013-05-03T10:49:47","date_gmt":"2013-05-03T14:49:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/?p=35424"},"modified":"2013-05-03T11:41:04","modified_gmt":"2013-05-03T15:41:04","slug":"just-the-thing-to-do-when-moneys-tight","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=35424","title":{"rendered":"Just the Thing to Do When Money&#8217;s Tight"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>From an article in the <a href=\"http:\/\/washingtonexaminer.com\/pentagon-pays-59-a-gallon-for-green-jet-fuel\/article\/2528692\">Washington Times<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>&#8220;In March, Gevo entered into a contract with the Defense Logistics Agency to supply the U.S. Army with 3,650 gallons of renewable jet fuel to be delivered by the second quarter of 2013,\u201d Gevo <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nasdaq.com\/article\/gevo-reports-first-quarter-2013-financial-results-20130430-01506#ixzz2S9cul13C\">announced<\/a> this week in its first quarter financial report. \u201cThis initial order may be increased by 12,500 gallons. All shipments will be at a fixed price of $59 per gallon during the initial testing phase. These shipments are in addition to the renewable jet fuel supplied to the U.S. Air Force (USAF) and the U.S. Navy (USN).\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Conventional JP-8 jet fuel costs $3.73 a gallon, according to the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.energy.dla.mil\/DLA_finance_energy\/Documents\/FY%202013%20Standard%20Prices%20%28Effective%20Oct%201,%202012%29.pdf\">Defense Logistics Agency<\/a>.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Yes, you&#8217;re reading that correctly.\u00a0 During the financial squeeze imposed by sequestration, DoD is going to spend up to $952,000+ to buy something &#8220;green&#8221; <em>when they could buy the conventional equivalent from standard commercial sources for just over $62,000<\/em>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>From an article in the Washington Times: &#8220;In March, Gevo entered into a contract with the &hellip; <a title=\"Just the Thing to Do When Money&#8217;s Tight\" class=\"hm-read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=35424\"><span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Just the Thing to Do When Money&#8217;s Tight<\/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":[209,213],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-35424","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-teh-stoopid","category-your-tax-dollars-at-work"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35424","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=35424"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35424\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=35424"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=35424"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=35424"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}