The green fleet's arrival in San Diego last month followed a phased roll-out in LA and San Francisco over the past year after a five-year trial in Seattle.
In January this year, the US navy launched the great green fleet in which each ship is deploying energy efficiency measures, renewable diesel and biojet.
Representative Mike Conaway, a Texas Republican who introduced House legislation that would limit biofuel purchasing and production and has been critical of the Great Green Fleet, said Democrats were using the military to pursue an environmental agenda.
Earlier this month the Queensland premier, Annastacia Palaszczuk, announced that Southern Oil's pilot plant would produce 1m litres of fuel annually from waste lube oil and renewable feedstocks for use in field trials by the Australian navy and the great green fleet.
SAN FRANCISCO, Nov. 30 — Claiming it now has the largest green fleet in the nation, the city of San Francisco this week completed a yearlong project to convert its entire array of diesel vehicles — from ambulances to street sweepers — to biodiesel, a clean-burning and renewable fuel that holds promise for helping to reduce greenhouse gases.
Although the motivation and numerical case study are from the US transit industry, the model is formulated to be widely applicable to green fleet management in multiple contexts.
Unfortunately, after the Republican insurgence of 2010, the green fleet idea was scrapped, despite biodiesel costs going down year after year.
The green fleet effort proved the viability of biodiesel and alternative fuel use and started to get the Navy off foreign oil.
He describes the decision-makers behind the Great Green Fleet as "all the smartest guys that went to the John F. Kennedy School of Smart People," and calls their interest in biofuels "just stupid".
"I'm proud to share that the military is responding to this challenge with the sailing of the great green fleet in 2016, to deploying solar power in the field with the marines, to simply insulating roofs of the Army's overseas deployment structures which will save millions of dollars per month in air conditioning costs". .
