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try this (PDF d/l): https://watson.brown.edu/costsofwar/files/cow/imce/papers/Pe...

"...the DOD is the world’s largest institutional user of petroleum and correspondingly, the single largest institutional producer of greenhouse gases (GHG) in the world. From FY1975 to FY2018, total DOD greenhouse gas emissions were more than 3,685 Million Metric Tons of CO2 equivalent."

"World's largest institutional user of petroleum" is both more precise and pretty damning.



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