The Pentagon's No. 2 official has directed the sprawling U.S. military bureaucracy, the federal government's largest single energy consumer, to refine its plans to reduce oil consumption and increase reliance on renewable and alternate energy sources to fulfill a recent presidential directive highlighting the importance of energy efficiency. Deputy Defense Secretary Gordon England, in a Feb. 16 memorandum to the service secretaries, the chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff and the Pentagon's acquisition executive, calls on the military to...
