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Bailouts and body bags: US military plans for peak oil

By Erik Curren | November 1, 2010

Rear Admiral Lawrence Rice

"I suggest that this is a good time to think soberly about our responsibilities to our descendants--those who will ring out the Fossil Fuel Age," said Admiral Hymen Rickover in 1957. Fast forward to 2010, and US military leadership clearly feels that the time has come again to talk about the Fossil Fuel Age and the national security dangers of its end. But this time, the … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Energy Tagged With: clean energy hawks, energy policy, fossil fuel, Hymen Rickover, James Schlesinger, James Woolsey, Joe Biden, Joint Operating Environment, national debt, national security, Nov 2010, peak oil, petroleum politics, US military

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