"Even modest swings out of fossil fuels into clean energy will have a dramatic effect.
Nearly $500 million has already been spent to bring gas, benzene and other fuels into Iraq, according to the corps.
It cannot have escaped the attention of oilmen that blending alternative fuels into petrol and diesel will conveniently reinforce oil's grip on transport.
First, modern industrial farmers convert fossil fuels into food calories, and the assumption that modern industrial agriculture will continue in its present form is retrograde.
Our job now is to aggressively transform our energy system away from fossil fuels into energy efficiency and sustainable energy," he said.
Whoever turns out to be right, though, it is an intriguing idea: instead of releasing the carbon dioxide produced by burning fossil fuels into the atmosphere, why not recapture it by photosynthesis?
One aspect of the company's performance -- the importation of high-priced fuels into Iraq soon after the invasion -- had already attracted the attention of Pentagon auditors, who say the government may have been overcharged by $61 million.
"These entities extract resources from every oil, natural gas and coal province in the world, and process the fuels into marketable products that are sold to consumers on every nation on Earth," Heede writes in the paper.
[C5.] Diplomats Involved in Kuwaiti Deal American diplomats, apparently trying to placate the Kuwait government, pressured Halliburton in late 2003 to keep using a Kuwaiti subcontractor to truck fuels into Iraq despite evidence that the company was charging exorbitant prices.
