U.S. News and World Report: It was a blunt message that came a little more than a year ago from an influential Pentagon task force. Charged with looking into the Department of Defense’s strategy for saving energy, the Defense Science Board concluded that the DOD didn’t seem to have one. The report further noted that the department was rather too nonchalant about its “unnecessarily high, and growing” fuel use. A Neighborhood Electric Vehicle (NEV) is driven by Maj. Greg Orell at Fort Myer, Virginia. That …