Dirty Fucking Hippie Commie Tree-huggers Take Over Pentagon

Blue Texan at Firedoglake:

Among wingnuts, it’s an article of faith that efforts to develop energy sources that don’t burn fossil fuels are part of some kind of secret Marxist plot.

A socialist world would place an enormous priority on alternative energy sources. This is what ecologically-minded socialists have been exploring for quite some time now.

And it’s not just the crazies at Conservapedia who believe this, it’s Very Serious People like Charles Krauthammer.

So what are they going to think about this?

With insurgents increasingly attacking the American fuel supply convoys that lumber across the Khyber Pass into Afghanistan, the military is pushing aggressively to develop, test and deploy renewable energy to decrease its need to transport fossil fuels.

Last week, a Marine company from California arrived in the rugged outback of Helmand Province bearing novel equipment: portable solar panels that fold up into boxes; energy-conserving lights; solar tent shields that provide shade and electricity; solar chargers for computers and communications equipment.

But…but…solar energy is just a left-wing fantasy — we’re decades away from it replacing our God-given pollutants.

Because the military has moved into renewable energy so rapidly, much of the technology currently being used is commercially available or has been adapted for the battlefield from readily available civilian models.

Also, Al Gore is fat.

Are even the holy Pentagon and precious National Security enough to make the oil-soaked repugs support renewable energy? You don't have to be as cynical as me to seriously doubt it.