Top US Navy (USN) officials have told a US Senate panel how the government can help with the service's energy initiatives by allowing long-term alternative fuel contracts and amending the federal budget accounting process for those contracts."Today, the United States controls just 2 per cent of known global oil reserves, but we consume over 20 per cent of the world's oil," Secretary of the Navy Ray Mabus told the Senate Energy and Natural Resources subcommittee on water and power during a 12 March 'field hearing' aboard the amphibious assault ship USS Kearsarge (LHD-3), which was moored at Naval Station Norfolk in Virginia.
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