U.S. Military Orders Less Dependence on Fossil Fuels

Insurgents continue to attack the military's fuel convoys as they cross the Khyber Pass into Afghanistan, making it very hard for the military to run their vehicles to transport soldiers to places. The military is aggressively pushing to develop, test, and deploy renewable energy to decrease its need to transport fossil fuels. Thus making it safer for the convoys transporting the fossil fuels. Being dependent on fossil fuels while fighting a war, is a very large liability for the military. These new types of renewable resources now account for only a small percentage of the energy used by the armed forces, but military leaders plan to drastically expand their use over the next decade. In Iraq and Afghanistan, a military study was performed, and found that for every 24 convoys that go to retrieve the fuel for base, 1 soldier was killed. Reducing the use of fossil fuels would mean that the military wouldn't have to risk lives any more just for energy, and make fighting the war that much easier.

http://www.nytimes.com/2010/10/05/science/earth/05fossil.html?_r=1&ref=earth