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Heather Goldin, CNN Tue November 3, 2015
Washington (CNN)In a new report, Special Inspector General for Afghanistan Reconstruction John Sopko said that a now-defunct task force spent nearly $43 million building a compressed natural gas filling station in Afghanistan.
The Task Force for Business and Stability Operations, which was created by the Department of Defense and directed towards reviving Afghanistan's economy in 2009, was disbanded in March.
The U.S. spent nearly $43 million to build this gas station in Afghanistan
"Although TFBSO achieved its immediate objective of building the CNG filling station, it apparently did so at an exorbitant cost to U.S. taxpayers," Sopko wrote to Secretary of Defense Ash Carter in a report out in the final days of last month. "In comparison, SIGAR found that a CNG filling station in Pakistan costs no more than $500,000 to construct."
The report stated that the Afghanistan filling station cost 140 times as much as a CNG station in Pakistan.
Most concerning to Sopko was that overhead costs alone for the project reached $30 million...snip
http://www.cnn.com/2015/11/02/politics/afghanistan-compressed-gas-filling-station/
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Every spare (borrowed) cent is spent on the military. It's a disgrace, and it's a disgrace that people aren't in the streets protesting. Congratulations. You watched the biggest ripoff in history. Eisenhower would be so proud.
tazkcmo
(7,300 posts)But it's a really NICE gas station! I mean, really, really nice.
nationalize the fed
(2,169 posts)a Compressed Natural Gas Station.
(There's really no difference between a CNG station and a Hydrogen station and the above report says that a CNG station can be built in Pakistan for $500,000. $43 Million could build 86 hydrogen stations. The Horizontal Width of USA is 2,680 miles. $43 Million could have built enough $500k hydrogen stations to cross the country 8 times with 10 stations, one every 260 miles- the range of a H2 car)
underthematrix
(5,811 posts)BUt please proceed.