Already planning a switch to blends with alternative fuels, the Air Force announced the ambition to reach zero carbon emissions, as well as jumpstarting the commercial viability of greener fuels thanks to purchasing power.
"We can get ourselves very close to a zero carbon footprint," said Anderson ahead of talks on the issue with counterparts in Britain and France next month..
"Not today. Not tomorrow. But maybe a decade or so down the road," he told a briefing at the State Department's Foreign Press Center..
Though it's the bottom line that's driving this, with high fuel costs, environmental concern seems to have been added on. Zero carbon would likely rule out coal liquefaction without appropriately balancing carbon sequesterization.
For Pentagon planners, it appears more and more that Peak Oil is a reality.
A new study ordered by the Pentagon warns that the rising cost and dwindling supply of oil -- the lifeblood of fighter jets, warships, and tanks -- will make the US military's ability to respond to hot spots around the world "unsustainable in the long term."
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