How Many Gallons Of Fuel Is The US Military Using Per Day In Iraq?

[Jcrowley]

Poll question: How Many Gallons Of Fuel Is The US Military Using Per Day In Iraq?

Now this is meant to just consider the US War in Iraq and does not include the approx. 3 billion gallons of fuel used so far in Operation Enduring Freedom in Afghanistan nor does it include the fuel that the US military uses daily in it's global empire of 737 bases in 132 countries that garrison the planet.

Admittedly this is not a poll but more like a quiz.

“The Army calculated that it would burn 40 million gallons of fuel in three weeks of combat in Iraq, an amount equivalent to the gasoline consumed by all Allied armies combined during the four years of World War I.”

- Presentation by American Petroleum Institute President and CEO Red Cavaney held at the USAF/API Awards Banquet – Arlington, Virginia, July 15, 2004.

[kirby]

1. Our vehicles run on freedom, dude! n/t

[moondust]

2. gpm

Gallons per mile for tanks.

[Jcrowley]

3. Abrams tank

gets 4-6 gallons to the mile. That's not a misprint. It takes 4 gallons of gas, using the conservative figure, to move an Abrams tank a mile.

[liberal renegade]

4. that's the same as a diesel locomotive,

only difference is, the locomotive is puling 125-135 boxcars, each boxcar weighing some 200,00 pounds loaded and the Abrams has a 3 man crew. A fully loaded train weighs 20,000 tons or better.

How much does the Abrams weigh?

[Jcrowley]

5. 1.7 million gallons/day

American GI is the most energy-consuming soldier ever seen on the field of war

“The Army calculated that it would burn 40 million gallons of fuel in three weeks of combat in Iraq, an amount equivalent to the gasoline consumed by all Allied armies combined during the four years of World War I.” <1>

In May 2005 issue of The Atlantic Monthly, Robert Bryce gives another example; “The Third Army (of General Petton) had about 400,000 men and used about 400,000 gallons of gasoline a day. Today the Pentagon has about a third that number of troops in Iraq yet they use more than four times as much fuel.”

The US military oil consumption overseas and the world oil demand

According to the Defence Logistic Agency’s Web Site, as of November 2005 more than 2.1 billion gallons of fuel have been used in support of Operation Enduring Freedom (since October 2001; war on terrorism in Afghanistan).

In the May 2005 issue of the Atlantic Monthly article Robert Bryce says that “The U.S. military now uses about 1.7 million gallons of fuel a day in Iraq. … each of the 150,000 soldiers on the ground consumes roughly nine gallons of fuel a day. And that figure has been rising.” This mean in Iraq each day 40 000 b/d of oil is consumed by the US military.

http://www.energybulletin.net/13199.html

[Thothmes]

6. Fuel Consumption

Don't forget all of those U.S. Navy ships operating in the Gulf. Their fuel consumption can sometimes be measured in tons per hour.