The Pentagon is running out of oil/gasoline supplies...
The Department of Defense is the largest single energy consumer in the country...in World War II, the United States consumed about a gallon of fuel per soldier per day...the US operations in Iraq and Afghanistan burned about 16 gallons of fuel per soldier on average per day...of all the cargo the military transports, more than half consists of fuel. About 80 percent of all material transported on the battlefield is fuel (not counting batteries)...the United States spends an average of $44 billion per year safeguarding oil supplies in the Persian Gulf...
http://www.boston.com/news/nation/washington/articles/2007/05/01/pentagon_study_says_oil_reliance_strains_military/
2007-05-01 09:56:34 · 9 answers · asked by mattzcoz 5 in Politics & Government ➔ Military
Comment to "a_bush_family_member", Canada supplies 16.3% of US oil imports. (Source - US Energy Information Administration)
2007-05-02 09:17:22 · update #1
It's not so much who has the oil and how much there is, but rather how much the Pentagon uses (in dollars and oil) trying to stabilize the Persian Gulf region, and how much it's dependent on oil (much more so than in the past). This is enough of a worry for them that they've researched it and published the results.
2007-05-02 09:30:04 · update #2
Canada is the largest supplier of foreign oil for the U.S., and it is not going to run out anytime in the next 100 years.
It is now known that Canada has the largest oil reserves in the world.
2007-05-01 10:06:02 · answer #1 · answered by a bush family member 7 · 2⤊ 0⤋
When we "totally" run out of oil...I hope we have some alternative fuel source by then because then the whole of America is going to be totally screwed because the oil companies will be REALLY gouging us by then. As if they aren't already.
2007-05-01 10:06:21 · answer #2 · answered by Drakona 5 · 1⤊ 1⤋
We have HUGE oil reserves in Alaska and Texas, we are using theirs up so we have the rest to ourselves when the time comes
2007-05-01 10:01:16 · answer #3 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 2⤋
Send you thanks to the envirowackos that won't let us drill in remote parts of Alaska where there is billions of gallons of oil.
2007-05-02 01:05:26 · answer #4 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Soldiers can ride horses, camels and bicycles.
2007-05-01 11:19:39 · answer #5 · answered by gregory_dittman 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Need oil it the american way
2007-05-01 10:09:34 · answer #6 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
There are still plenty of countries Bush and company can invade to get more oil.
2007-05-01 10:01:46 · answer #7 · answered by Pop D 5 · 1⤊ 4⤋
That's not going to happen.
2007-05-01 10:18:26 · answer #8 · answered by senior citizen 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Dumbo Bush will blame it on us.
2007-05-01 10:21:57 · answer #9 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 2⤋