Quote of the Day: Amory Lovins on a Green Pentagon  Photo
credit: Judy Hill/Rocky Mountain Institute In Washington, D.C.,
a surprisingly strong voice in 2007 for getting off oil will be
the world's biggest buyer both of oil and of renewable
energy—the Pentagon. This is not just because oiligarchs tend
not to be freedom-loving democrats and sometimes foment
instability and conflict.  Rather, the risk and cost of
vulnerable fuel convoys, easy prey to roadside bombs, will
persuade military leaders that only super-efficient platforms
dragging dramatically slimmer fuel logistics tails, or none, can
fight persistent, dispersed, affordable wars. This strategic
shift will not just save hundreds of lives and tens of billions
of dollars a year. It will also speed key technologies, like
ultralight materials, that can triple the efficiency of civilian
cars, trucks and planes—just as military R&D; created the
internet, GPS, and the jet and chip industries. Thus the
Pentagon will start to lead America, and the world, off o