How about the external costs? According to Milton R. By the way, remember that a billion has nine zeros.Īccording to Pentagon spokesman Chris Isleib a $10 increase per barrel of oil increases Defense Department costs by $1.3 billion per year.
Overall, total actual cost for DoD energy consumption is over $20 billion. To this we should add 238 million spent on non-tactical vehicles. In terms of fuel types, jet fuel (JP-8) accounts for more than 50% of total DoD energy consumption, and nearly 60% of its mobility fuel.Īccording to the DoD’s Federal Energy Management Report for FY2006, the DoD spent approximately $3.5 billion on facility energy and $16.5 billion on energy for tactical vehicles. Oil is followed by electricity (slightly more than 10%) and natural gas (nearly 10%). More than half of it was to Air Force.įACT 3: Oil accounts for more than three-fourths of DoD’s total site delivered energy consumption. Total final energy consumption (called site delivered energy by DoD) of the DoD was 844 trillion Btu in FY2006.įACT 2: Defense Energy Support Center (DESC) sold $13 billion of energy to DoD services in FY2006. The DoD per capita energy consumption (524 trillion Btu) is 10 times more than per capita energy consumption in China, or 30 times more than that of Africa.
Nigeria, with a population of more than 140 million, consumes as much energy as the U.S. For those of you who think that this is not much then read the next sentence. It corresponds to only 1% of total energy consumption in USA. Also read the footnotes in this article.įACT 1: The DoD’s total primary energy consumption in Fiscal Year 20 trillion Btu. If you want to reproduce them make sure you read every footnote even if you need to put on your glasses. military oil consumption based mostly on official statistics. This is my Fact Zero.īelow I give some facts and figures on U.S. Department of Defense (DoD) does not know precisely where and how much energy it consumes. But as a wise man once said, don’t confuse facts with reality. military is the single largest consumer of energy in the world.
NOTE: Images in this archived article have been removed.Īs the saying goes, facts are many but the truth is one.
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