RE: The United States has not spent $ 300 million a day on war in Afghanistan.
August 25, 2021 at 8:10 am
The cost of the fuel (JP-8) is only a fraction of the fully burdened cost of supplying it to the end-user in a war zone.
Fuel for the US military in Afghanistan is brought by ship into a port in Pakistan. From there it is transported by land in trucks through the mountains into Afghanistan. Once in country, it goes to various distribution points. Often with armed escorts. Getting it to remote stations is often done in plastic bladders carried by helicopters. This whole process can increase the cost from $1 a gallon bulk price paid delivered to port in Pakistan to over $1000 a gallon pumped into an MRAP in some remote province. None of this considers things like the 44 fuel trucks and 220,000 gallons of fuel destroyed just trying to get fuel into Bagram airbase in the month on June 2008 alone.
Fuel for the US military in Afghanistan is brought by ship into a port in Pakistan. From there it is transported by land in trucks through the mountains into Afghanistan. Once in country, it goes to various distribution points. Often with armed escorts. Getting it to remote stations is often done in plastic bladders carried by helicopters. This whole process can increase the cost from $1 a gallon bulk price paid delivered to port in Pakistan to over $1000 a gallon pumped into an MRAP in some remote province. None of this considers things like the 44 fuel trucks and 220,000 gallons of fuel destroyed just trying to get fuel into Bagram airbase in the month on June 2008 alone.
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