Post Carbon Senior Fellow Richard Heinberg was quoted in this article on the US Navy’s push towards biofuels.

From the article:

Somerville says that “the Navy is essentially doing, well, I don’t really know what they’re doing. I suppose they’re making a statement that they want renewables.”

Hunter’s take is that a “green [Navy] sounds great to a large part of the population that votes a specific way.”

And Heinberg says it’s due to nothing short of an existential crisis.

“[Navy officials] see the future of oil as bleak, and without oil, how do they stay in business? There is no real answer,” he says. “They’ve got to grasp at some straw or another, and this is the one that’s nearest…. But just because people need something doesn’t mean it exists.”