US Taxpayers built this $43 Million Dollar Gas Station in Afghanistan

[nationalize the fed]

Nov 2, 2015: United States Inspector General is investigating what happened and why so much money was wasted.

How the Pentagon spent $43 million on a single gas station

November 2, 2015, WaPo



John Sopko’s team of investigators has uncovered all kinds of wasteful spending in Afghanistan through its work as a U.S. government watchdog. Now the group has uncovered a $43 million gas station, which Sopko calls “gratuitous and extreme”—and possibly criminal.

In a scathing report, Sopko, the Special Inspector General for Afghanistan Reconstruction, wrote that a similar compressed natural gas station in Pakistan cost $500,000, or about $306,000 at current exchange rates, meaning the Afghanistan station cost 140 times as much.

He wrote that the Pentagon’s program had “several troubling aspects,” including $30 million in overhead costs, and the lack of a feasibility study before the project began...
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