"From December 1907 to February 1909, President Theodore Roosevelt ordered America’s steel-hulled, steam-powered battle fleet to circumnavigate the globe.
A hundred years later, Barack Obama is trying to demonstrate that the world’s greatest superpower can operate within the constraints of his climate change agenda with a Navy, Mitt Romney noted in 2012, that is the smallest its ever been since 1917.
We suppose that’s one way to pay tribute to the past.
On Wednesday, the “Great Green Fleet” launched from San Diego to demonstrate that it can steam across the world’s oceans using nothing but alternative fuel.
The Department of Defense wanted the U.S. Navy to run on a 50/50 mix of traditional petroleum and biofuels by year 2020.
It seemed to be making headway by using a plant-based jet fuel — for which it paid $29.30 a gallon..."
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