Breaking the Inertia: Moving Beyond America's Addiction to Foreign Oil.

摘要

The United States relies predominately upon a single source of energy, petroleum, to meet the growing energy demands of the nation, and it has done so for more than 100 years. To overcome this major impediment, this paper proposes utilizing the military element of national power as a primary implementer of responsible energy efficiency practices and a developer of alternate, sustainable sources of energy to help the nation overcome its foreign-sourced energy dependency. This paper utilizes the framework of ends, means, ways, and risk to articulate a Department of Defense-enabled solution to the nation's oil addiction. Use of the Department of Defense (DoD) seems like a natural course of action, since the military's energy demands represent a microcosm of the United States' energy demands, and DoD routinely develops innovative technical solutions to strengthen the nation's defense posture.