$400 per gallon

[spike]

The Pentagon pays an average of $400 to put a gallon of fuel into a combat vehicle or aircraft in Afghanistan.

The statistic is likely to play into the escalating debate in Congress over the cost of a war that entered its ninth year last week.

Pentagon officials have told the House Appropriations Defense Subcommittee a gallon of fuel costs the military about $400 by the time it arrives in the remote locations in Afghanistan where U.S. troops operate.

More of the article here

http://thehill.com/homenews/administration/63407-400gallon-gas-another-cost-of-war-in-afghanistan-

 

[ResearchMonkey]

If it cost $400/gal to fuel there, how much do you figure it would cost build that base for 30,000 troops?

 

[Professur]

well, when you're already paying $12,000 for a hammer ......

 

[paul_valaru]

$400 Afghani dollars, it's like 45 cents....

 

[ResearchMonkey]

And all that oil we have in Iraq.

 

[spike]

If it cost $400/gal to fuel there, how much do you figure it would cost build that base for 30,000 troops?

Don't know. But we have bases there already.

 

[spike]

well, when you're already paying $12,000 for a hammer ......

If I could just sell them 2 hammers a month.

 

[Winky]

Let em sink, they will drown

you must realize the solution is to abandon that place
let them wallow in their seventh century muck

we don't need an adoptive illiterate child country
as we plunge into a depression to rival the great
depression of the 30's

We can clean up the mess after the third world war

Read this

 

[Altron]

erm, so why is it the US's job to spend hideous amounts of money just to fight some towelheads in some desert on the other side of the world? unless we're conquering valuable property, there's no point to it

 

[ResearchMonkey]

Don't know. But we have bases there already.

topography of the area in question. we do not have large bases there.

 

[ResearchMonkey]

If I could just sell them 2 hammers a month.

Yes, the government is so efficient, maybe they can run health care too.

 

[Winky]

Blower Boy has something there.

 

[paul_valaru]

topography of the area in question. we do not have large bases there.

there is a Tim Hortons there. (so popular with the american troops they are opening on at fort knox

towelheads

really?

 

[2minkey]

tim horton's blows. though on occasion it serves as good rationale to escape family mayhem over the holidays.

 

[paul_valaru]

tim horton's blows. though on occasion it serves as good rationale to escape family mayhem over the holidays.

you shut yer dirty mouth!!!!

 

[Gonz]

you must realize the solution is to abandon that place let them wallow in their seventh century muck

erm, so why is it the US's job to spend hideous amounts of money just to fight some towelheads in some desert on the other side of the world? unless we're conquering valuable property, there's no point to it

Leave. Yep, good idea. Just like we did after the Soviet left. Look what happened there.

 

[Gato_Solo]

you shut yer dirty mouth!!!!

Why? Its only coffee. I had some, and the difference between Tim's and the dining hall is price. The only saving grace for the chain, at least here at Kandahar, is the semi-fresh Timbits that sometimes appear in the office where I work...

As for the cost of fuel here...without that fuel, we cannot cover the territory we need to fight the battles Congress has tasked us to fight. Would you rather we go on horseback, or on bicycles?

 

[paul_valaru]

Why? Its only coffee. I had some, and the difference between Tim's and the dining hall is price. The only saving grace for the chain, at least here at Kandahar, is the semi-fresh Timbits that sometimes appear in the office where I work...

I can't hear you lalalalalalalalalalalaalalalalalalaalalal

 

[Gato_Solo]

I can't hear you lalalalalalalalalalalaalalalalalalaalalal

BTW...isn't Tim Horton's owned by the same corporation that owns Starbucks?

 

[spike]

Yes, the government is so efficient, maybe they can run health care too.

Yes, government healthcare in other countries and Medicare here has proven itself far more efficient than private healthcare. True fact.