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Afghanistan

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The paper argues that the U.S. military should partially replace the use of imported petroleum diesel in Afghanistan with locally produced biodiesel. Five benefits could potentially be realized: a reduction in U.S. casualties, savings of millions or billions of dollars a year, freeing up troops dedicated to the management of fuel convoys for other assignments, a reduction in poppy cultivation, and thus the opium trade of up to 50%, and finally the creation of a new renewable industry in Afghanistan based on agriculture, Afghanistan’s most important economic sector. 

 

The paper also makes a complementary recommendation that the U.S. should fund the creation of an Afghanistan commodity exchange. A commodity exchange could both support Afghanistan’s critical agricultural sector (including biodiesel crops) and create a new financial industry for Afghanistan.

 

The paper (118 pages) or an executive summary of the paper (five  pages) can be downloaded here:

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