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Originally Posted by classicman (Post 686752)

Very interesting HLJ. Wow solar only 1.32%....
I guess a big part of that is because they need other types of fuel sources more than electric.

That's partly due to the capacity factor of solar, which ranges from about 13%, in the North East for example, to maybe 20% in Arizona.

Wind can be a little higher. Biomass, hydro and geothermal can be over 90%.

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Originally Posted by TheMercenary (Post 686757)

WTF? Buy that dude a walker. :lol:

me dude? I'm not a dude.

tw was short and concise. I liked that.

I have no idea what you mean by your laughing suggestion for needing a walker. tho:mad2::blush::D

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Renewables Account for 11.14% of U.S. Electricity Use

That should probably read, electricity sold, as it probably doesn't included what's generated and consumed privately.

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Originally Posted by skysidhe (Post 686781)

me dude? I'm not a dude.

tw was short and concise. I liked that.

I have no idea what you mean by your laughing suggestion for needing a walker. tho:mad2::blush::D

Sorry about the "dude", Please insert "chick". :D

Now I feel like Mrs. Cleaver. Tea and cookies anyone?

More like Mrs Cleavage.

lol

I want to believe you are not clever enough to be calling me a boob.:mecry:

Not a boob, nor the other one, not June Cleaver, either. :headshake

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Originally Posted by tw (Post 686741)

Fear of innovation is a very conservative attitude. Change is evil. New is too liberal. But wrap that innovation in a defense budget, and extremist conservatives will promote it forever.

And statements of this kind are how you maintain a reputation...

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...as a twat. You can't bloody help yourself, you and your wacko extremism. Manners don't happen with you, do they.

Sky, you aren't looking any too good either, volunteering to be TWat's cheerleader. He seldom utters anything "well said." It is usually and pointlessly graceless instead. Turn your back on him.

UB shut up. or up yours or whatever. I don't care what any of the stinking opinions are.

Thanks bruce. I was a joke, but nice of you to say. ;)

June Cleaver is quietly clever. I LOVE her! ;)

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US Military, which pays around $400 a gallon in Afghanistan according to the Pentagon comptroller's office in a report to the House Appropriations Defense panel.

The report from the Pentagon comptroller was requested as a part of Obama administration's reconsideration of Afghanistan strategy. The price comes as a result of an investigation into why it costs approximately $1 billion a day to send every 1,000 troops into Afghanistan.

Now, there's a lot baked into that $400 a gallon price. Consider that in addition to the basic extraction and refinement costs of normal military fuel, priced at $2.78, it has to be sourced from secure facilities with high security to prevent sabotage, it must be transported across the regions difficult terrain and to remote locations using overland or air transit, and it must be guarded from attack at all times. It's also a variable price, and is not standard for all regions of Afghanistan, some areas are cheaper, and believe it or not, some are even more expensive, ranging up to $1,000 a gallon. Still, the $400 price is nothing short of breathtaking. To put things in even more sobering terms, the report goes on to state the Marines alone, in one day in Afghanistan, consume an average of 800,000 gallons of fuel.

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That's completely ridiculous. I don't want my tax dollars going to $1000/gallon fuel.

Just think, all the taxes you paid last year are being spent to fill up one truck, one time.