http://www.orionmagazine.org/index.php/articles/article/5931
Terry Tempest Williams in Orion Magazine
October 19, 2010 by brookegw
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The article is a gut punch. The personal effects and the global impact….
“On average, sixty thousand barrels a day were escaping from the well before the gusher was capped on July 15, 2010.”
My thoughts went to the U.S. Industrial Machine…
The US Department of Defense is the largest oil consuming government body in the US and in the world.
Military fuel consumption makes the Department of Defense the single largest consumer of petroleum in the U.S.
According to the US Defense Energy Support Center Fact Book 2004, in Fiscal Year 2004, the US military fuel consumption increased to 144 million barrels. This is about 40 million barrels more than the average peacetime military usage.
144 million barrels makes 395 000 barrels per day, almost as much as daily energy consumption of Greece.