{"id":895,"date":"2012-04-23T10:43:46","date_gmt":"2012-04-23T14:43:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.l-a-k-e.org\/blog\/2012\/04\/veterans-for-clean-energy-operation-free.html"},"modified":"2012-04-23T10:43:46","modified_gmt":"2012-04-23T14:43:46","slug":"veterans-for-clean-energy-operation-free","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.l-a-k-e.org\/blog\/2012\/04\/veterans-for-clean-energy-operation-free.html","title":{"rendered":"Veterans for clean energy: Operation Free"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=Pn-m33RDykY\"> <img decoding=\"async\" style=\"float:right;border:none;\" class=\"at-xid-6a0120a58214e4970b016304a3840e970d\" src=\"\/blog\/images\/6a0120a58214e4970b016304a3840e970d-pi.jpg\"    \/><\/a> Tired of expensive gas? Tired of expensive wars? Let&#8217;s get off of oil and onto clean renewable energy! That&#8217;s the message from <a href=\"http:\/\/www.operationfree.net\/\"> Operation Free,<\/a> a campaign of the Truman Project.<\/p>\n<blockquote>Mission: Secure America with Clean Energy.<\/blockquote>\n<p>Iraq War veteran Terron Sims said clean energy and veterans is a part of the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.operationfree.net\/2012\/03\/29\/video-opfree-veteran-terron-sims-on-dylan-ratigan-show\/\"> \u201cmodern form of American exceptionalism.\u201d<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Here&#8217;s <a href=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=Pn-m33RDykY\"> the video:<\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\" src=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/Pn-m33RDykY\" title=\"YouTube video player\" frameborder=\"0\" height=\"390\" width=\"480\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>Pullquote:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\u201cIn Iraq&#8230; the lines would stretch up to ten miles long under the hot sun, under constant risk of attack by extremists. I realized then just how vulnerable it makes any country to be dependent on oil, especially the United States, which uses nearly a quarter of the world&#8217;s supply.\u201d<\/blockquote>\n<p>The U.S. military is already leading us towards renewable energy. <a href=\"\/blog\/2012\/02\/solar-thermal-for-moody-afb.html\"> <img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" style=\"float:right;border:none;\" class=\"at-xid-6a0120a58214e4970b016304a3844a970d\" src=\"\/blog\/images\/6a0120a58214e4970b016304a3844a970d-pi.jpg\"   width=\"125\" height=\"125\"  \/><\/a> The Air Force, for example, has a goal of <a href=\"\/blog\/2012\/02\/solar-thermal-for-moody-afb.html\"> 25% of facility energy use from renewable energy by 2025<\/a>, and Moody AFB is helping with that. Imagine if a substantial part of the military&#8217;s budget was repurposed to implementing renewable energy throughout the country to get us off of foreign oil. Now that would be national security!<\/p>\n<p>And we don&#8217;t have to wait for Washington or Atlanta to get on with it right here in Lowndes County, for security, environmental preservation, jobs, and profit.<\/p>\n<p>-jsq<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Tired of expensive gas? Tired of expensive wars? Let&#8217;s get off of oil and onto clean renewable energy! That&#8217;s the message from Operation Free, a campaign of the Truman Project. Mission: Secure America with Clean Energy. 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