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"Bob Dog" |
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30 Oct 2003 06:57:16 AM |
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[OT] First "blood for oil", now it's "bleed the public" |
Quelle surprise. First MCI, now Halliburton. Shrub and
his ilk will be lucky if they are merely voted out of
office in 2004, nevermind executed.
http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&u=/nm/20031030/pl_nm/iraq_gasoline_cheney_dc_4
Bob Dog
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Reps: U.S. Overpaying Halliburton for Gas
Wed Oct 29, 7:24 PM ET
By Susan Cornwell
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The U.S. government is paying Vice
President ***** Cheney's former firm Halliburton "enormous sums"
-- $2.65 a gallon -- for gasoline imported into Iraq from Kuwait,
two lawmakers charged on Wednesday.
Democrats Rep. Henry Waxman of California and Rep. John Dingell
of Michigan said this gross overpayment was made worse by the
fact that the U.S. government was turning around and reselling
the gasoline in Iraq for four to 15 cents a gallon.
In a letter of complaint sent to President Bush's national
security adviser Condoleezza Rice, the two lawmakers said experts
they consulted think the cost of buying and transporting gasoline
from Kuwait into Iraq should cost less than $1 a gallon.
The Iraqi oil company SOMO is paying only 97 cents a gallon to
import gasoline from Kuwait to Iraq, they said.
Waxman added in a statement: "We know that someone is getting
rich importing gasoline into Iraq. What we don't know is who is
making the money, Halliburton or the Kuwaitis?"
Halliburton subsidiary Kellogg Brown & Root, which defends its
pricing as fair, has a contract with the U.S. Army Corps of
Engineers to rebuild Iraq's oil sector. This has included
importing oil products in short supply as the oil-rich nation's
refineries are brought back into production.
As of Oct. 19, Halliburton had imported 61.3 million gallons of
gasoline from Kuwait into Iraq, and the company was paid $162.5
million for an average price of $2.65 a gallon, Waxman and
Dingell wrote.
"The $2.65 per gallon is grossly excessive," they said. "Experts
we consulted stated that the total price for buying and
transporting gasoline into Iraq should be less than $1.00 per
gallon."
The U.S. government was then selling this gasoline inside Iraq for
just four to 15 cents a gallon, subsidizing over 95 percent of the
cost of gasoline consumed by Iraqis, they said.
"The U.S. government is paying nearly three times more for
gasoline from Kuwait than it should, and then is reselling this
gasoline at a huge loss inside Iraq," the lawmakers wrote.
Halliburton spokeswoman Wendy Hall defended the company against
what she said were "false statements" about its efforts in Iraq,
adding that wartime work was expensive and Halliburton only
recovered "a few cents on the dollar" for fuel costs.
"Four types of fuel are being purchased: gasoline, kerosene, LPG
and diesel," Hall said in a statement. These fuels had different
prices, she said, but gave no details.
"It is expensive to purchase, ship and deliver fuel into a wartime
situation, especially when you are limited by short duration
contracting," she said.
"The costs for the fuel are 'pass-through' costs because
Halliburton only recovers a few cents on the dollar for this
expense," Hall said.
Cheney was Halliburton's CEO for five years before running for
vice-president in 2000.
Waxman wrote earlier this month to the White House Office of
Management and Budget to complain that Halliburton's subsidiary
was overcharging for petroleum products, saying it was billing an
average price of $1.59 a gallon.
A Waxman spokeswoman said new information the lawmaker has
received since then was broken down into gasoline from Turkey and
gasoline from Kuwait, revealing the price for gasoline imported
from Kuwait to be much higher.
Halliburton was charging only $1.22 per gallon to import gasoline
from Turkey into Iraq, Waxman and Dingell said.
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| User: "Phylter" |
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| Title: Re: [OT] First "blood for oil", now it's "bleed the public" |
30 Oct 2003 08:00:27 AM |
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(Bob Dog) astounded us with:
news:4fa573de.0310300457.2e638e86@posting.google.com:
Quelle surprise. First MCI, now Halliburton. Shrub and
his ilk will be lucky if they are merely voted out of
office in 2004, nevermind executed.
Dammit Bob Dog, don't you go building my hopes now!
That'd be an irony, fried in the chair/s he approved of being used for
"criminals"
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Phylter
Denizen of Darkness #44 & AFJC Antipodean Attaché
http://www.rudraigh.com/afjc/regulars.html
Change "no-way" to "hotmail" to respond
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| User: "Doc Smartass" |
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| Title: Re: [OT] First "blood for oil", now it's "bleed the public" |
30 Oct 2003 05:58:45 PM |
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(Bob Dog) wrote in
news:4fa573de.0310300457.2e638e86@posting.google.com:
Quelle surprise. First MCI, now Halliburton. Shrub and
his ilk will be lucky if they are merely voted out of
office in 2004, nevermind executed.
One more year. But I doubt the Teflon Con will suffer much if any fallout
over this.
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Dr. Smartass
BAAWA Knight of Heckling -- a.a. #1939
"And the knowledge that they fear
Is a weapon to be used against them."
--Rush, "The Weapon"
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| User: "Sean C" |
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| Title: Re: [OT] First "blood for oil", now it's "bleed the public" |
30 Oct 2003 02:56:31 PM |
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In article <4fa573de.0310300457.2e638e86@posting.google.com>, Bob Dog
<bg12345@apexmail.com> wrote:
Quelle surprise. First MCI, now Halliburton. Shrub and
his ilk will be lucky if they are merely voted out of
office in 2004, nevermind executed.
We'll be lucky if they merely get voted out of office, before they
execute the country. There are too many people in this country stupid
enough to vote for Bush again despite a laundry list of offenses
against democracy and truth. After all, the average American is being
told that everything is hunky-dory with ole Georgie in charge by a
compliant media.
Sean C
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| User: "Mark K. Bilbo" |
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| Title: Re: [OT] First "blood for oil", now it's "bleed the public" |
30 Oct 2003 08:22:29 AM |
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On Thu, 30 Oct 2003 04:57:16 -0800, Bob Dog wrote:
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The U.S. government is paying Vice
President ***** Cheney's former firm Halliburton "enormous sums"
-- $2.65 a gallon -- for gasoline imported into Iraq from Kuwait,
two lawmakers charged on Wednesday.
Sheesh.
Only the Bush administration would be able to find outrageously expensive
gasoline in the middle of one of the world's biggest oil reserves...
--
Mark K. Bilbo
"The computer revolution is over. We lost."
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