From The New York Times, 12/10/03:
http://www.nytimes.com/2003/12/10/international/middleeast/10GAS.html
High Payments to Halliburton for Fuel in Iraq
By DON VAN NATTA Jr.
The United States government is paying the Halliburton Company an
average of $2.64 a gallon to import gasoline and other fuel to Iraq
from Kuwait, more than twice what others are paying to truck in
Kuwaiti fuel, government documents show.
Halliburton, which has the exclusive United States contract to import
fuel into Iraq, subcontracts the work to a Kuwaiti firm, government
officials said.
But Halliburton gets 26 cents a gallon for its overhead and fee,
according to documents from the Army Corps of Engineers.
The cost of the imported fuel first came to public attention in
October when two senior Democrats in Congress criticized Halliburton,
the huge Houston-based oil-field services company, for "inflating
gasoline prices at a great cost to American taxpayers."
At the time, it was estimated that Halliburton was charging the United
States government and Iraq's oil-for-food program an average of about
$1.60 a gallon for fuel available for 71 cents wholesale.
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The Bush/Cheney Corporation ripoffs of the taxpayer continue.
Harry
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