US pays $400 per gallon for gas in Afghanistan
source: http://rawstory.com/2009/10/us-pays-400-per-gallon-for-gas-in-afghanistan/
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This year in Afghanistan, the price has topped $400.
The stunning revelation emerged Thursday in a report by the Congressional Research Service, an arm of Congress that conducts non-partisan evaluations of projects and programs. The report says that part of the reason it costs so much to keep US forces in Afghanistan, is because the government is paying $400 per gallon of fuel.
$400 per gallon.
Why so much? The cost includes shipping, which sometimes includes the pricetag of a helicopter flight. Sending fuel by helicopter is woefully inefficient, because it uses up almost as much fuel as it carries.
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eden49
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...roll out the barrel...
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eden49
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WhiteNoise
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MEANWHILE...
http://costofwar.com/& FURTHERMORE...
http://www.usdebtclock.org/"The mother of revolution and crime is poverty" - Aristotle (Ancient Greek Philosopher, Scientist and Physician, 384 BC-322 BC)
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WhiteNoise
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Revelation_Machine
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HA! America, land of the FAIL
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hunzedog
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why is all our oil and drugs always is somebody elses country...?
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hunzedog
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bansheewail
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Before all you Obama-haters try to hang this unbridled spending around his neck, let's keep in mind that we have been half-assing the war in Afghanistan since the second year of George W. Bush's first term as POTUS. Here's what you can do to make me feel better. Go in to go into your bathroom, look in the mirror and cuss yourself out. Place the discontent squarely on your own shoulders. Please, spen dthe rest fo the day in a cathartic funk. "Self-loathing" should be your code word of the day. You deserve to suck. You supported the Neo-Cons. They lied to you. You believed it. End of sorry.
Bansheewail, over and out
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WhiteNoise
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No shit Sherlock ;)
HALLIBURTON / KBR STEALING US BLIND !
http://current.com/items/89801957_halliburton-kbr-stealing-us-blind.htmAlso...
As long as the elephant in the room (heroin trade) is not addressed the rest is but window dressing for the village idiot crowd...
Some wars are just not meant to be won !
The Spoils of War: Afghanistan's Multibillion Dollar Heroin Trade
http://www.globalresearch.ca/index.php?context=va&aid=91Who benefits from the Afghan Opium Trade?
http://www.globalresearch.ca/index.php?context=va&aid=3294Alfred McCoy, Drug fallout: the CIA's Forty Year Complicity in the Narcotics Trade. The Progressive; 1 August 1997 http://www.thirdworldtraveler.com/CIA/CIAdrug_fallout.html
PRIVATIZE THE PROFITS, SOCIALIZE THE COST !
It works across the board: from wall Street to smack filled body bags !
"If liberty means anything at all, it means the right to tell people what they do not want to hear." -George Orwell
“If you are afraid to speak out, you are not in America any more” - unknown
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