Green Cars News

JUNE 14, 2010

Afghanistan could become the ‘Saudi Arabia of lithium’ an internal memo from the US Pentagon hints after new research revealed that the country has vast reserves of the valuable mineral. Tags: Electric cars Afghanistan lithium U.S

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Green Car Congress

MARCH 13, 2010

Logistics train in Afghanistan. Phase One of the experiment simulated the energy and water demands of a Marine unit at forward operating bases similar to those in Afghanistan. Tags: Brief. Conway has been the catalyst for the Corps’ current work in energy conservation. Source: USMC. Click to enlarge.

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Green Car Congress

OCTOBER 15, 2009

Representatives from publications from Afghanistan to the USA gathered in Copenhagen October 9-11 for Project Syndicate’s “Kyoto to Copenhagen”, a three-day conference featuring discussions and interviews with figures such as Lord Nicholas Stern, Jeffery Sachs and Joseph Stiglitz. Tags: Brief.

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Green Car Congress

OCTOBER 15, 2009

The Commandant of the Marine Crops, General Conway said it best during the Marine Corps energy summit a few weeks ago when he described the fully burdened cost of a gallon of gasoline delivered to a piece of equipment in Afghanistan. Tags: Bio-hydrocarbons Biomass Fuel Efficiency Fuels Policy.

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Plugs and Cars

NOVEMBER 6, 2007

As the price per barrel goes beyond $97, one story in the NY Times reports : •Bombing in Afghanistan kills 64. Tags: petroleum oil price per barrel. Attack on pipeline in Yemen. Domestic oil inventory to fall. Severe weather forecast for North Sea. Oil platforms evacuated. Dollar weak.

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Creative Greenius

NOVEMBER 11, 2013

While we honor today the service, sacrifice and loss of all our military members, there was no threat to our homeland, our freedom or our democracy from the North Koreans, the North Vietnamese, the Cambodians, the Iraqis, or the Afghanistan people.

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Green Cars News

APRIL 26, 2009

The desert base acts as a house for the Army’s premier training centre for troops that will be deployed in Iraq and Afghanistan. The Iraq and Afghanistan wars are consuming more fuel than any other wars in US history and so it’s understandable that officials are now reducing their consumption and embracing energy alternatives.

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