U.S. Military Orders Less Dependence on Fossil Fuels - Page 3

classicman · 10-07-2010, 02:32 PM

<thud>

HungLikeJesus · 10-07-2010, 02:33 PM

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

piercehawkeye45 · 10-07-2010, 02:37 PM

$116.4 billion a year for gas for the Marines in Afghanistan alone?

glatt · 10-07-2010, 02:55 PM

I've heard the Roman Empire fell when it overextended itself in unsustainable distant foreign wars. Hmm...

Almost 10 years in Afghanistan, and what do we have to show for it? Think if we had spent all that money on infrastructure here in the US.

skysidhe · 10-07-2010, 04:17 PM

I have hated this war from the beginning. I have been good about not caring anymore about what and who morons vote for, but this article jars me out of my apathy, in so much that I feel a little

xoxoxoBruce · 10-07-2010, 04:26 PM

In Iraq we were paying damn near that much, by the time is was trucked in from Kuwait, and selling it to Iraqi civilians for 15 cents a gallon, to keep them happy.

skysidhe · 10-07-2010, 04:51 PM

Damage control, isn't it nice.

Spexxvet · 10-08-2010, 02:37 PM

Don't I remember someone posting that the military should take over some task because they could do it cheaper? Hah!

classicman · 10-08-2010, 03:54 PM

Find that.

classicman · 10-08-2010, 09:05 PM

Hiya Sky... Hows things in Burbank?

skysidhe · 10-08-2010, 09:40 PM

Well, I'm not exactly throwing darts at a map of Burbank,Ca YET

classicman · 10-08-2010, 09:56 PM

I tried that already. Save yourself the trouble. I think its San Diego anyway.

Urbane Guerrilla · 10-08-2010, 11:35 PM

Sky, darlin', you're left behind the curve. I've already done so, and quite some time back. Note the urbane fashion in which I refuse to take offense at your sniveling snarling as evidence thereof.

This doesn't mean I can't call a spade a spade, a tool a tool, and an entrenching tool an etcetera. When someone utters a stupid or less-than-optional thought, I get to tell them what they did. As a general rule, I leave no one out. Insofar as I can.

Yes, I can become indignant. Even if it leaves me unappreciated among the trogs.

I don't even take refuge in Logical Positivism.

I also prefer to own that Ronald Reagan T shirt in the style of the popular Ché shirt, rather than the Ché. Or maybe this one. Same company.

Urbane Guerrilla · 10-08-2010, 11:49 PM

Glatt, Glatt, Glatt. Am I wrong to wish you knew more about counterinsurgency?

Insurgencies take a long time to build, and long and continual social discontent before they become viable at all. (This was the thing the leftist radicals of the Sixties never understood. Sure, they felt discontented. What they never got was they were the only ones.) It takes a like period of time to turn a discontented society away from insurgency. It is an unmiraculous, daily-grind endeavor of small daily victories or losses.

You can find a lot more in indepth study of the subject, but that's the bumper-sticker version.

Cracking the nuts of freedom's enemies is not something I run out of patience with.

xoxoxoBruce · 10-09-2010, 12:40 AM

Fortunately, Petraeus is smarter than you, and could tell the difference between a counter-insurgency and an invasion. That's why he was able to rally the locals against the invaders in Iraq, and stop the madness, rather quickly.

10-07-2010, 02:32 PM	#1
classicman barely disguised asshole, keeper of all that is holy. Join Date: Nov 2007 Posts: 23,401	<thud> __________________ "like strapping a pillow on a bull in a china shop" Bullitt

10-07-2010, 02:33 PM	#2
HungLikeJesus Only looks like a disaster tourist Join Date: Feb 2007 Location: above 7,000 feet Posts: 7,208	Just think, all the taxes you paid last year are being spent to fill up one truck, one time. __________________ Keep Your Bodies Off My Lawn SteveDallas's Random Thread Picker.

10-07-2010, 02:37 PM	#3
piercehawkeye45 Franklin Pierce Join Date: Oct 2006 Location: Minnesota Posts: 3,695	$116.4 billion a year for gas for the Marines in Afghanistan alone? __________________ I like my perspectives like I like my baseball caps: one size fits all.

10-07-2010, 04:26 PM	#6
xoxoxoBruce The future is unwritten Join Date: Oct 2002 Posts: 71,105	In Iraq we were paying damn near that much, by the time is was trucked in from Kuwait, and selling it to Iraqi civilians for 15 cents a gallon, to keep them happy. __________________ The descent of man ~ Nixon, Friedman, Reagan, Trump.

10-08-2010, 02:37 PM	#8
Spexxvet Makes some feel uncomfortable Join Date: Dec 2005 Posts: 10,346	Don't I remember someone posting that the military should take over some task because they could do it cheaper? Hah! __________________ "I'm certainly free, nay compelled, to spread the gospel of Spex. " - xoxoxoBruce

10-07-2010, 02:55 PM	#4
glatt ™ Join Date: Jul 2003 Location: Arlington, VA Posts: 27,717	I've heard the Roman Empire fell when it overextended itself in unsustainable distant foreign wars. Hmm... Almost 10 years in Afghanistan, and what do we have to show for it? Think if we had spent all that money on infrastructure here in the US.

10-07-2010, 04:17 PM	#5
skysidhe ~~Life is either a daring adventure or nothing.~~ Join Date: Apr 2006 Posts: 6,828	I have hated this war from the beginning. I have been good about not caring anymore about what and who morons vote for, but this article jars me out of my apathy, in so much that I feel a little

10-07-2010, 04:51 PM	#7
skysidhe ~~Life is either a daring adventure or nothing.~~ Join Date: Apr 2006 Posts: 6,828	Damage control, isn't it nice.

10-08-2010, 03:54 PM	#9
classicman barely disguised asshole, keeper of all that is holy. Join Date: Nov 2007 Posts: 23,401	Find that. __________________ "like strapping a pillow on a bull in a china shop" Bullitt

10-08-2010, 09:05 PM	#10
classicman barely disguised asshole, keeper of all that is holy. Join Date: Nov 2007 Posts: 23,401	Hiya Sky... Hows things in Burbank? __________________ "like strapping a pillow on a bull in a china shop" Bullitt

10-08-2010, 09:40 PM	#11
skysidhe ~~Life is either a daring adventure or nothing.~~ Join Date: Apr 2006 Posts: 6,828	Well, I'm not exactly throwing darts at a map of Burbank,Ca YET

10-08-2010, 09:56 PM	#12
classicman barely disguised asshole, keeper of all that is holy. Join Date: Nov 2007 Posts: 23,401	I tried that already. Save yourself the trouble. I think its San Diego anyway. __________________ "like strapping a pillow on a bull in a china shop" Bullitt

10-08-2010, 11:35 PM	#13
Urbane Guerrilla Person who doesn't update the user title Join Date: Jul 2002 Location: Southern California Posts: 6,674	Sky, darlin', you're left behind the curve. I've already done so, and quite some time back. Note the urbane fashion in which I refuse to take offense at your sniveling snarling as evidence thereof. This doesn't mean I can't call a spade a spade, a tool a tool, and an entrenching tool an etcetera. When someone utters a stupid or less-than-optional thought, I get to tell them what they did. As a general rule, I leave no one out. Insofar as I can. Yes, I can become indignant. Even if it leaves me unappreciated among the trogs. I don't even take refuge in Logical Positivism. I also prefer to own that Ronald Reagan T shirt in the style of the popular Ché shirt, rather than the Ché. Or maybe this one. Same company. __________________ Wanna stop school shootings? End Gun-Free Zones, of course. Last edited by Urbane Guerrilla; 10-08-2010 at 11:42 PM.

10-08-2010, 11:49 PM	#14
Urbane Guerrilla Person who doesn't update the user title Join Date: Jul 2002 Location: Southern California Posts: 6,674	Glatt, Glatt, Glatt. Am I wrong to wish you knew more about counterinsurgency? Insurgencies take a long time to build, and long and continual social discontent before they become viable at all. (This was the thing the leftist radicals of the Sixties never understood. Sure, they felt discontented. What they never got was they were the only ones.) It takes a like period of time to turn a discontented society away from insurgency. It is an unmiraculous, daily-grind endeavor of small daily victories or losses. You can find a lot more in indepth study of the subject, but that's the bumper-sticker version. Cracking the nuts of freedom's enemies is not something I run out of patience with. __________________ Wanna stop school shootings? End Gun-Free Zones, of course. Last edited by Urbane Guerrilla; 10-08-2010 at 11:56 PM.

10-09-2010, 12:40 AM	#15
xoxoxoBruce The future is unwritten Join Date: Oct 2002 Posts: 71,105	Fortunately, Petraeus is smarter than you, and could tell the difference between a counter-insurgency and an invasion. That's why he was able to rally the locals against the invaders in Iraq, and stop the madness, rather quickly. __________________ The descent of man ~ Nixon, Friedman, Reagan, Trump.

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