Originally posted by: alchemize
Originally posted by: BOBDN
Originally posted by: alchemize
Your usual selective quoting again BOOB.
Through an open and competitive bid process, KBR awarded the fuel acquisition contracts to suppliers who could meet the very demanding requirements defined by the client, the United States Army Corps of Engineers. The requirements included the ability to acquire the necessary and large quantities of fuel on short notice and the ability and willingness to deliver it in a hostile environment.
So yes, if you back up a tanker truck to a Saudi gas station, you might get it for $.71 a gallon.
Then tell the driver that he has to drive 24 hours to deliver it overnight, oh and their might be folks with RPG's on the way when you get there (and by the way, if you get killed BOOB and PhillTim are gonna politicize and celebrate your death all over a message board), and I can understand why the price would go up.
You're right, it isn't Washington DC or California, it's a war zone.
PS: Blithering idiot. I'll add that to my "boob words" list.
Here's a napkin to wipe the spittle from your chin...
That's total BULLSH!T. But what else can we expect from you?
Halliburton has the contract to provide fuel in Iraq on a no-bid contract wherein profits are to be limited, if I remember correctly, to between 3 and 7 percent. If they can't do the job give up the contract. Instead they price gouge American taxpayers and are in default of their contract.
And whose fault is it this is necessary in the first place? Who turned Iraq into a war zone?
Don't be ridiculous, as if you had a choice.
As for your claim again that anyone on this forum is celebrating the deaths of Americans you can go fvck yourself asshole.
YOU support the draft dodger who sent Americans to Iraq FOR NO REASON. The life of every American who dies in Iraq is on the head of the Bush administration and the traitors who support their illegal, immoral war.
Here's two or three napkins to wipe the spittle from your chin this time. You really made a mess with that one.
Halliburton has the contract to provide fuel in Iraq on a no-bid contract wherein profits are to be limited, if I remember correctly, to between 3 and 7 percent. If they can't do the job give up the contract. Instead they price gouge American taxpayers and are in default of their contract.
"Through an open and competitive bid process, KBR awarded the fuel acquisition contracts to suppliers who could meet the very demanding requirements defined by the client, the United States Army Corps of Engineers. "
Try again. They subcontracted. And it actually was competitively bidded. Anything would have been approved by the army. And the markup was 2%
"Contrary to what many have reported, the fuel mission is not limited to the procurement and delivery of gasoline only. KBR was tasked to procure and deliver a variety of fuels ranging from gasoline to liquid propane gas (LPG) to kerosene and diesel. The costs associated with this effort are not limited to the price of the fuel. The company incurs costs for transportation, storage, distribution, quality assurance, and labor required to manage the operation. Including these mentioned expenses as well as the price of the fuel and the company's two percent fee, the average cost for the mission is approximately $1.59 per gallon. "
Sounds like they are being pretty open and honest about it to me. I'll wait for an investigation or whatever, but I'm not the one that rabidly jumps to conclusions everytime some muckracker puts a story out.
PS: Didn't you mean the life of every stupid american solider?
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