DoD Has Enough Petroleum Products for Anti-Terror War

Seriously. Just in case you were worried.

The title line of this entry is the slug line of a Dept. of Defense press release available today on the DoD website.

WASHINGTON, Aug. 11, 2005 – Defense Department logisticians are ensuring the U.S. military has an abundant supply of products developed from a commodity left behind by long-dead dinosaurs.

That hydrocarbon-based commodity, created under the earth's surface over eons by the pressurized remains of prehistoric animals and plant life, is petroleum. It is a word derived from the Latin petra - rock, and oleum - oil. Also known as crude oil, petroleum is pumped to the surface from underground deposits and is transformed via distillation into gasoline, diesel, and jet fuels, fuel oil for everything the military uses in peace and wartime.

And, "yes, DoD has enough petroleum products" on hand to supply U.S. military forces prosecuting the global war against terrorism in far-flung locales like Afghanistan and Iraq, Defense Logistics Agency spokeswoman Lana Hampton said.

Got that?

Iraq is a "far-flung" locale in the GWOT/GSAVE/GWOT. Lest anyone forget.

And remember, there is plenty of oil, so don't worry.