An Encouragement to the Friends of Military Biofuels

With the decision of the US Senate and House Armed Services committees to support legislation preventing the Navy from purchasing high-performance, bio-based aviation fuels should they cost (even one penny) more than  conventional fossil fuels, the Digest shares this passage from the 2011 motion picture Moneyball.

Red Sox owner John W. Henry (to Billy Beane):

“I know you are taking it in the teeth out there. But the first guy through the wall, he always gets bloodied. Always. This is threatening not just a way of doing business, but in their minds is threatening the game. But what’s really on their minds is that it is threatening their livelihood, threatening their jobs, threatening the way they do things.

“And every time that happens whether it is a government, or a way of doing business or whatever it is, the people who are holding the reins, who have their hands on the switch, they go bat-shit crazy.

“I mean anyone who is not tearing down their team right now and rebuilding it using your model, they’re dinosaurs. They’re sitting on their ass on the sofa in October watching the Boston Red Sox win the World Series.”