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louGrinzo on August 24, 2005 - 9:18am Permalink | Subthread | Comments top
I pulled a bar chart with Dept. of Defense consumption of various energy forms from the just-posted DOE Annual Energy Review.

http://www.grinzo.com/energy/defense.jpg

The entire AER can be downloaded the EIA web site, at:

http://www.eia.doe.gov/aer/

It has some other data on Defense use of energy. (Use Acrobat to search for "defense".)

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Yankee on August 24, 2005 - 9:25am Permalink | Subthread | Parent | Comments top
Very cool! Thanks. That didn't pop up last night--I must have been doing the wrong search. Anyway, Jando--there's your answer.
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Jando on August 24, 2005 - 2:50pm Permalink | Subthread | Parent | Comments top
Thanks, ianqui. Just knowing that the DoD is "the largest single consumer of fuel in the United States" somehow makes me sleep easier at night. As for my waking hours....
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Stuart Staniford on August 24, 2005 - 10:53am Permalink | Subthread | Parent | Comments top
Wow. The military totally dwarfs the whole rest of the government. I wanted to know what this is in barrels per day. I took at look at the numbers here, and came up with an approximate figure for US military oil usage of 350,000 barrels per day.
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Donal on August 24, 2005 - 12:03pm Permalink | Subthread | Parent | Comments top
Remember when the army traveled on its stomach?  Now it gulps oil.  

BTW, I like the identification of new comments.  Another time-saver.

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