The Navy has been ‘directed’ to be the test bed for these new ‘bio-fuels’, at a cost of $26/gal!!! Full articles HERE and HERE
Yep, not $2.60, but TWENTY-SIX dollars a gallon!!!
When you compare it to the ‘expensive’ bunker fuel we now use at $3.60 a gallon, it’s a ‘bargain’ that we are being allowed to prototype these new fuels for saving the environment.
Now a bit of common sense here… Lets say a Destroyer holds roughly 35,000 gallons of bunker fuel, at $3.60/gal that is $126,000 per fillup; at $26/gal that equates to $910,000 per fillup…
Now if you figure it costs roughly $100,000 per DAY to run a Destroyer at $3.60/gal, and now you increase fuel costs by a factor of just over 7, you’ve just driven the Navy out of business!!!
The Navy is already restricting not only the speeds destroyers can run, but the number of days they can be underway to ‘conserve’ costs (which means training suffers). What next???
And the truly sad part is there is no way to make enough bio-fuel to actually supply the Fleet anytime in the near future at any realistic price…