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Congress is debating the Defense Department authorization bill, the legislation that allocates the $700 billion needed to fund our military through 2012.

Wrapped deep in the legislation is an important issue we can all relate to - fuel costs. The DOD consumes 2 percent of the nation's fuel, and fuel costs are among the military's biggest expenses.

Regrettably, the issue of where and how the military gets its gas is lost amid more high-profile topics such as wars in Iraq and Afghanistan. As a result, dirty energy industry groups have quietly launched a sneak attack to shoot down current initiatives designed to help wean the military off fossil fuels and move it toward cleaner domestic fuels.

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