Can't We At Least Get A Fuel Discount From Iraq?

[maco]

WASHINGTON - Think you're being gouged by Big Oil? U.S. troops in Iraq are paying almost as much as Americans back home, despite burning fuel at staggering rates in a war to stabilize a country known for its oil reserves.

Military units pay an average of $3.23 a gallon for gasoline, diesel and jet fuel, some $88 a day per service member in Iraq, according to an Associated Press review and interviews with defense officials. A penny or two increase in the price of fuel can add millions of dollars to U.S. costs.

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/23922063/

[Lux Interior]

"Suck it, Americans!"

[OWC Jamie]

[quote Rep. Gene Taylor, D-Miss].Taylor , a member of the House Armed Services Committee, said he was shocked last December to watch U.S. troops in Kuwait filling diesel tanks at higher prices than he would have paid to fill up his boat in Mississippi. [quote Taylor]When Taylor pressed Pentagon and embassy officials on the matter, he was told Kuwait was actually offering a rare discount. Unlike other oil-rich allies, Kuwait is estimated to have saved the U.S. government $1.2 billion in four years, from 2002 to 2006, U.S. Embassy officials told the congressman in a Jan. 3 letter.

Under the current agreement, the Kuwait-owned company supplies 7,000 gallons per day of free fuel to U.S. forces operating inside Kuwait. For troops in Iraq, Kuwait offers 860,000 gallons of jet fuel a day at less than half the market price. This discounted fuel represents more than half the fuel the U.S. uses in Iraq each day.

The rest of the fuel — about 100,000 to 200,000 gallons a day — is sold to the U.S. military at market rate.
So they were pumping free diesel ?


I kind of like the idea of not pumping any diesel into military vehicles, myself.

[Black Landlord]

So you should get some sort of incentive if you burn more fuel?

[Lux Interior]

[quote Black Landlord]So you should get some sort of incentive if you burn more fuel?
Clearly yes.

If you are on a mission from God.