$400 per gallon gas

[risktaker]

I believe you forgot the 'minor' detail of providing security for the tanker truck along the way.

Let's see, you might need several humvees, a few high speed troop carriers, well paid crew & provisions & maybe even some type of insurance or cash payment to compensate the family of whoever gets killed along the way.

Quote from peilthetraveler:

I should go to the pentagon and tell them that I'll get the gas to the troops for $300 bucks per gallon!

A gas tanker holds about 9k gallons. I will ship the gas tanker(which costs about $120k) to pakistan which with shipping rates being as low as they are would not cost more than 10-20k. Fill up the tanker in islamabad for $3 bucks per gallon ($27k) then drive the 75 miles or so to jalalabad, afganistan and collect my $300 bucks per gallon for the fuel grossing myself 2.7 million dollars minus $167,000 in expenses so i get a net profit of $2,533,000.

Heck...I might even hire a pakistani driver for 30 bucks per day to drive the truck. After the first delivery, my net profit goes up to $2,673,000 per shipment!

Works out for everyone and the pentagon gets to save 25% of what they are paying now! Everyone wins!

6 deliverys per week and after 1 year i have a net profit of 811 million dollars...with just 1 truck!

 

[achilles28]

400 per Gallon?

Which Third-party was contracted by the Pentagon to deliver fuel?

Halliburton?

And 25,000$ shovels. And 100,000$ tents...

Iraq/Afghanistan is feeding trough for Defense Contractors.

Lobby half of Congress to go to war, and make Billions overnight!

War is a Business.

 

[Free Thinker]

Powell warned of ‘terror-industrial complex’ in 2007 interview

By David Edwards and Muriel Kane
Friday, October 16th, 2009 -- 10:19 am
"What is the greatest threat facing us now?" Powell asked. "People will say it’s terrorism. But are there any terrorists in the world who can change the American way of life or our political system? No. ... The only thing that can really destroy us is us. We shouldn’t do it to ourselves, and we shouldn’t use fear for political purposes—scaring people to death so they will vote for you, or scaring people to death so that we create a terror-industrial complex."

When Powell delivered a speech at the University of Oklahoma a short time later, campus reporters asked what he had meant by his remarks, and he replied, "We're spending an enormous amount of money on homeland security, and I think we should spend whatever it takes. But I think we have to be careful that we don't get so caught up in trying to throw money at the terrorist and counter-terrorist problem that we're essentially creating an industry that will only exist as long as you keep the terrorist threat pumped up.

 

[mgabriel01]

Quote from sosueme:

Outsource the wars to the N Koreans, they have the lowest cost unit on the planet right now.

sosueme

Outsource the wars to the Taliban - their per capita costs are lower than the North Koreans

Any percieved conflict of interest will be resolved by assasination

 

[number22]

Quote from mgabriel01:

Outsource the wars to the Taliban - their per capita costs are lower than the North Koreans

Any percieved conflict of interest will be resolved by assasination

na, war is pretty much over, cut deal with Taliban who ever replace it with nicer name.

 

[mgabriel01]

Quote from number22:

na, war is pretty much over, cut deal with Taliban who ever replace it with nicer name.

unit cost structure wont change for a generation
the name doesn't matter

 

[nutmeg]

And 25,000$ shovels. And 100,000$ tents...

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Voila, fully burdened costs. The media inflames outrage with $100 hammers and 5k coffee pots but there ya go, the fully burdened cost.

 

[number22]

Quote from mgabriel01:

unit cost structure wont change for a generation
the name doesn't matter

Whenever the conflict getting intensified, the price of AK-47 would rise, other time these thing cost much less.

Once Afghanistan out of center of international attention, everything will return normal. No one will care it, just look at history of Vietnam conflict.

 

[achilles28]

Quote from nutmeg:

And 25,000$ shovels. And 100,000$ tents...

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Voila, fully burdened costs. The media inflames outrage with $100 hammers and 5k coffee pots but there ya go, the fully burdened cost.

Perhaps the no-bid contracts might have something to with those 5K coffee pots and 100K tents?

 

[tommylove3]

This is a missed opportunity to end the war.
I have a three point plan to end the war and revitalize the local Afghan economy.

First we need to import as many donkeys into Afghanistan as possible. We need to flood the county with a mass donkey invasion.

Next we need to pay the Afghans to bring us the gas. They will have an excess of transportation and at 300 bucks a gallon we should have little problem getting near full employment out of this.

Next we need to bring in new mini malls. Service every vice and need the Afghans don't even know they need. The next part is important we need an even bigger add campaign to encourage the Afghans to spend there new money like drunken sailors, sort of like what Americans did borrowing of there homes.

That should work