[Ost-news] The Pentagon Vs. Peak Oil

[Oil Sands Truth: Shut down the Tar Sands - social and environmental impacts of tar sands heavy oil projects across North America]

How Wars of the Future May Be Fought ...  
Just to Run the Machines That Fight Them

by Michael T Klare

WorkingForChange (June 14 2007)

Sixteen gallons of oil. That's how much the average American soldier in  
Iraq and Afghanistan consumes on a daily basis - either directly,  
through the use of Humvees, tanks, trucks, and helicopters, or  
indirectly, by calling in air strikes. Multiply this figure by 162,000  
soldiers in Iraq, 24,000 in Afghanistan, and 30,000 in the surrounding  
region (including sailors aboard US warships in the Persian Gulf) and

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