DEMOCRATS PUT GREEN ENERGY BACK INTO MILITARY BUDGET BILL

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Human Events:

In a move that could throw a wrench into passage of the bipartisan defense authorization bill, Democrats added an amendment Tuesday that would restore the Pentagon’s ability to invest in expensive green energy sources.

When the House passed the Fiscal 2013 National Defense Authorization Act months ago, members, outraged at stories of $26-per-gallon biofuels, passed an amendment barring the purchase of alternative energy at higher rates than traditional fuel sources. In the Senate markup of the bill in June, an amendment sponsored by Sens. John McCain (R-Ariz) and Jim Inhofe (R-Okla.) echoed the provision and prohibited the Defense Department from investing in a biofuels refinery.

The House also voted to exempt the Defense Department from a regulation that prohibits federal agencies from using fuel sources with more emissions than traditional fuels, barring the Pentagon from investing in plentiful and domestic high-carbon fuel sources.

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