How the Navy's Incompetence Sank the 'Green Fleet'

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In October of 2009, Navy Secretary Ray Mabus took the stage at a hotel ballroom in Virginia to announce the military's most ambitious energy plan in decades: a break with the U.S. fleet's strict dependence on oil. Instead, he declared, the Navy would get half of its fuel and power from clean, alternate sources by 2020. Leading the way would be an aircraft carrier strike group — the ultimate symbol of American naval power — running on nothing but biofuels and other renewables.

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