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    Image of Turboner Turboner
    10/18/09

    In reply to US Military Pays $400 A Gallon For Fuel In Afghanistan
    No corruption here. These aren't the droids you are looking for. Move along. #fuelprices
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    Image of Trai_Dep Trai_Dep
    10/17/09

    In reply to US Military Pays $400 A Gallon For Fuel In Afghanistan
    Why don't they just strap a chicken hawk to the tailpipe of each US vehicle and let hot air power it? #fuelprices
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    Image of Paul Y. don't drive too fast. Paul Y. don't drive too fast.
    10/16/09

    In reply to US Military Pays $400 A Gallon For Fuel In Afghanistan
    My girlfriend's uncle's brother used to work in Iraq for a contractor -- he's told tales of graft so bad that you pretty much had to order ten times of any given material or supply that you needed, in order to have any hope of covering the corruption in the supply chain. If you got lucky, you'd receieve at least what you needed to do your job.

    I can see the overhead on securing a fuel supply being ludicrous. It would be interesting to see how much of it never even makes it to it's destination, as well. I do not envy whomever has to break this kind of news to Congress. #fuelprices
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    Image of Flathead Smith Flathead Smith
    10/16/09

    In reply to US Military Pays $400 A Gallon For Fuel In Afghanistan
    $400 dollars per gallon seems like a lot, but it’s my understanding that those MRAPs get really good gas mileage which makes up for the high cost. #fuelprices
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    Image of alexander_the_car_salamander alexander_the_car_salamander
    10/16/09

    @Flathead Smith: Yeah, if you consider 1-2 mpg "good mileage" #fuelprices
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    Image of Flathead Smith Flathead Smith
    10/16/09

    @alexander_the_car_salamander: As compared to the M1 Abrams, that's great. #fuelprices
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    Image of OA 5599 OA 5599
    10/17/09

    @Flathead Smith: Don't forget, though, that we also save 5 cents per gallon if we pay cash. #fuelprices
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    Image of that ain't the way to have fun, son that ain't the way to have fun, son
    10/16/09

    In reply to US Military Pays $400 A Gallon For Fuel In Afghanistan
    If you look at the Ponzi scheme which is Social Security, you'll soon realize the government isn't good at math. #fuelprices
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    Flathead Smith promoted this comment that ain't the way to have fun, son was starred that ain't the way to have fun, son was unstarred
    Image of Flathead Smith Flathead Smith
    10/16/09

    @send lawyers, guns, and money: And yet, we happily pay the Social Security Administration 15.3% of our income. #fuelprices
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    Image of DonLuc DonLuc
    10/16/09

    @Flathead Smith:

    duteously, not happily #fuelprices
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    Image of helowrench helowrench
    10/16/09

    @DonLuc: I is more like "happily, as long as I am threatened with jail time" #fuelprices
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    Image of Gaseous Clay Gaseous Clay
    10/16/09

    @send lawyers, guns, and money: Can I play less taxes? #fuelprices
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    Image of that ain't the way to have fun, son that ain't the way to have fun, son
    10/16/09

    @helowrench: @DonLuc:

    Exactly.

    The IRS may be slow, but they're damned thorough. Unless you have enough money to leave the country, permanently, and live well with no outside income, do not, I repeat, do not fuck with them. #fuelprices
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    Image of shrdlu shrdlu
    10/17/09

    @send lawyers, guns, and money: You gotta be joking. Social Security a Ponzi scheme? I've been paying into it for fifty eight years and will never receive more than four or five cents for every dollar I paid into it. Of course there's some, and you're probably one of them, who would use the word "entitlement" which has been turned into a pejorative. Wake the fuck up.
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    Image of TurboBrick [LIGIER] TurboBrick [LIGIER]
    10/16/09

    In reply to US Military Pays $400 A Gallon For Fuel In Afghanistan
    With margins like that, I'm going to Afghanistan and opening my own Kwik-E-Mart. #fuelprices
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    P161911 probably shoudn't have promoted this comment TurboBrick [LIGIER] was starred TurboBrick [LIGIER] was unstarred
    Image of tempesjo tempesjo
    10/16/09

    @TurboBrick [LIGIER]: Good idea. But I recommend a pay before you pump policy. #fuelprices
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    Image of GreenN_Gold GreenN_Gold
    10/16/09

    In reply to US Military Pays $400 A Gallon For Fuel In Afghanistan
    Any soldier that leaves an engine idling unnecessarily better get down and give me 20. #fuelprices
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    Image of Van Sarockin, rogue trebuchet Van Sarockin, rogue trebuchet
    10/16/09

    In reply to US Military Pays $400 A Gallon For Fuel In Afghanistan
    Did the military grab the Stig because he was doing undercover research into the high price of military fuels? Enquiring minds want to know. #fuelprices
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    Image of Zweben Zweben
    10/16/09

    In reply to US Military Pays $400 A Gallon For Fuel In Afghanistan
    Those numbers aren't even close to adding up. $400 a gallon x 800,000 gallons a day = $320 million a day on fuel.

    According to an article released two days ago by the very same publication, the US spends $3.6 billion a month in Afghanistan. 3.6 billion / 30 = $120 million a day in Afghanistan, total cost. Pretty sure we can't spend $200 million more on fuel per day than we spend on the entire war per day.

    I'm guessing that either an extra zero has been added in somewhere, or that the $400 a gallon only applies to a small fraction of the fuel they use. #fuelprices
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    P161911 probably shoudn't have promoted this comment Zweben was starred Zweben was unstarred
    Image of LoganSix LoganSix
    10/16/09

    In reply to US Military Pays $400 A Gallon For Fuel In Afghanistan
    For some reason, the picture makes me think of this:

    But, besides roads, plumbing, education, and laws....what did the Romans ever give us? #fuelprices
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    P161911 probably shoudn't have promoted this comment LoganSix was starred LoganSix was unstarred
    Image of HoonThatFerrari HoonThatFerrari
    10/16/09

    @LoganSix: +1 for the Python reference. #fuelprices
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    Image of lilwillie lilwillie
    10/16/09

    In reply to US Military Pays $400 A Gallon For Fuel In Afghanistan
    and the Military is about 21% of the budget, give or take depending on where you get the source from.

    So imagine how much money is spent in Washington on Lawyers to hide the dead hookers? #fuelprices
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    Image of Bullitt417 Bullitt417
    10/16/09

    In reply to US Military Pays $400 A Gallon For Fuel In Afghanistan
    You mean they cant just stick a straw into the ground and suck it into the gas tanks? #fuelprices
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    Scandinavian Flick promoted this comment Bullitt417 was starred Bullitt417 was unstarred
    Image of GreenN_Gold GreenN_Gold
    10/16/09

    @Bullitt417: What? And drink their milkshake? #fuelprices
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    Image of HoonThatFerrari HoonThatFerrari
    10/16/09

    @GreenN_Gold: Well, only if their milkshake brings all the boys to the yard. #fuelprices
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    Image of pauljones pauljones
    10/16/09

    In reply to US Military Pays $400 A Gallon For Fuel In Afghanistan
    This is redonkulous.

    Didn't we blow the crap out of half the people that we buy oil from anyways? #fuelprices
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    Image of lilwillie lilwillie
    10/16/09

    @pauljones:

    if it makes you feel any better. My brother mentioned that when he would go to the tank range at 29 palms his Platoon easily went through 300K of ammunition just target shooting and training for a day. What he spent overseas, he can't even ad that high.

    Depleted Uranium is expensive I guess. #fuelprices
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    Image of Van Sarockin, rogue trebuchet Van Sarockin, rogue trebuchet
    10/16/09

    @lilwillie: Hope your brother isn't breathing any of that DU dust. #fuelprices
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    Image of lilwillie lilwillie
    10/16/09

    @Van Sarockin, rogue trebuchet:

    He did for four years. He is now active Army doing security in Baghdad. So far no health issues.

    I did handle a spent SABOT round case once, little weird looking at something so small that is so lethal. #fuelprices
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    Image of Turbineguy - now with reheat!! Turbineguy - now with reheat!!
    10/16/09

    @lilwillie: USMC? Only DU ammo I know of is on the USAF's A-10. The 30mm GAU-8 fires antiarmor DU rounds. #fuelprices
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    Image of HoonThatFerrari HoonThatFerrari
    10/16/09

    @lilwillie:

    Twenty-Nine Palms,
    I feel the heat of your sabot round,
    Sighting me back down the scope,
    That leads me to you... you... you, ohhhh,
    It comes kinda hard,
    When I hear your voice on the radio,
    Saying: "H.E. on target, and fire when ready"
    At you... you... ohhh-ohhh. #fuelprices
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    Image of lilwillie lilwillie
    10/17/09

    @Turbineguy - now with reheat!!:

    [www.fas.org]

    Hey, I didn't believe it at first either. After a tour of the ramps at Palms, I learned many, many cool things about the Abrams. #fuelprices
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    Image of LoganSix LoganSix
    10/16/09

    In reply to US Military Pays $400 A Gallon For Fuel In Afghanistan
    Maybe we can get some for cheaper over in Iraq. We'll just need to make a transport road through the neighboring country... no big deal.

    BTW, don't tease us with Plum Crazy "actual" photos and then take them away. Bastards! #fuelprices
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    Maxichamp promoted this comment LoganSix was starred LoganSix was unstarred
    Image of Maxichamp Maxichamp
    10/16/09

    @LoganSix: Yeah, except the country between Iraq and Afghanistan is IRAN. D'oh! #fuelprices
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    Image of LoganSix LoganSix
    10/16/09

    @Maxichamp: Yeah, I'm one of those crazy U.S. citizens who knows a little bit about geography, irony and sarcasm. :) #fuelprices
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    LoganSix was starred LoganSix was unstarred
    Image of Maxichamp Maxichamp
    10/16/09

    @LoganSix: That makes two of us. :) #fuelprices
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    Image of tempesjo tempesjo
    10/16/09

    @LoganSix: I just checked gaspricewatch.com, and it's only $399.679 in Turkmenistan. Definitely worth a trip across the border to fill up. #fuelprices
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    Image of Leeeeena the Jalopchick Leeeeena the Jalopchick
    03/01/09

    In reply to Driver Charged $81 Billion For Filling Camaro Gas Tank
    Should have gotten an RS... maybe they'd only have charged him $60 billion instead.
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