The Cost of War: $400/gl
So you thought $3/gl was bad? Try this on - its costs the US military $400 on average for every gallon of gas consumed in Afghanistan.
The staggering thing is in some regions of Afghanistan it costs the military over $1,000 per gallon, while the US marines alone consume 800,000 gallons of fuel per day in the country.
So yeah - it means that the US govt is spending billions just to fuel up.
One of the ironies is of course that Afghanistan is in-between Saudi Arabia/Middle East, Asia, Russia, India and China. So the fuel supply should or could look like this:
But because of the way the US military runs its wars - it instead looks like this:
The thing is, I am sure most of those costs are not long-distance transportation. They vast majority of those costs I am sure are coming in-country.
But what this means is that the logistics department of the US military sucks. If you really think that the US could have won WWII if gasoline cost 150 times more at the in Germany than it did from pumps at home, you are crazy. The military needs to get its shit together and find a way to safely and at low-cost deliver fuel to Afghanistan.
An I have a solution. Drive to Saudi Arabia. There, fuel prices are pegged at about 65cents/gl. Which means that the US Marines alone would save $319,480,000 per day if they just bought their fuel from the gas stations... not counting the cost of driving the 1,200 mile round trip...
The staggering thing is in some regions of Afghanistan it costs the military over $1,000 per gallon, while the US marines alone consume 800,000 gallons of fuel per day in the country.
So yeah - it means that the US govt is spending billions just to fuel up.
One of the ironies is of course that Afghanistan is in-between Saudi Arabia/Middle East, Asia, Russia, India and China. So the fuel supply should or could look like this:
But because of the way the US military runs its wars - it instead looks like this:
The thing is, I am sure most of those costs are not long-distance transportation. They vast majority of those costs I am sure are coming in-country.
But what this means is that the logistics department of the US military sucks. If you really think that the US could have won WWII if gasoline cost 150 times more at the in Germany than it did from pumps at home, you are crazy. The military needs to get its shit together and find a way to safely and at low-cost deliver fuel to Afghanistan.
An I have a solution. Drive to Saudi Arabia. There, fuel prices are pegged at about 65cents/gl. Which means that the US Marines alone would save $319,480,000 per day if they just bought their fuel from the gas stations... not counting the cost of driving the 1,200 mile round trip...
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