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From: Comit por la Nueva Colombia <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Sent: Wednesday, March 27, 2002 12:52 AM
Subject: [activistcolombia] US military fuel buying suggests new war(s)
Reuters. 26 March 2002. U.S. Military Fuel Buying
Surges for Mideast
Bases.
NEW YORK -- The U.S. military, the world's largest
purchaser of petroleum, is buying oil at rates not
seen since the
Persian Gulf War as it apparently seeks to fuel the
Bush administration's fight against terrorism.
The Pentagon has tendered for some 7.4 million barrels
of fuel above and beyond normal contracts for its
Mideast bases over the past three months, according to
the Department of Defense
(DOD).
This mimics emergency buys made after Iraq invaded
Kuwait in 1990 and dwarfs supplemental purchases
during the NATO air wars against Serbia in 1999.
The U.S. military's big appetite for oil, which has
underpinned strong petroleum prices in recent weeks,
has intensified speculation that the
United States may broaden its fight against terrorism
beyond Afghanistan, possibly to Iraq, as tensions
continue to boil in the region.
Officials at the DOD's fuel-buying wing, the Defense
Energy Support
Center (DESC), declined to comment on the reason for
the extraordinary fuel buys, but said supplemental
tenders are generally to compensate for supply
shortfalls due to higher-than-expected military
consumption.
"To the extent that we need more fuel than we planned
for under our normal contracts, we issue supplemental
solicitations," said one DESC official.
The most recent tender for 5.6 million barrels of jet
fuel, issued in late February, was labeled "urgent and
compelling" -- a tag that signifies the delivery
contract for the fuel must be signed within 45 days of
issue.
The 7.4 million barrels in supplemental tenders call
mostly for jet fighter fuel to be delivered to bases
in Afghanistan, Pakistan, the
United Arab Emirates, Bahrain, Israel, Japan, and the
island of Diego Garcia, during the course of this
year.
The volume of the supplemental tenders, which amounts
to about five days of commercial and private jet fuel
consumption in the United States, adds up to more than
8 percent of the DOD's worldwide bulk fuel purchases
during the year 2000, and is 40 percent higher than
worldwide supplemental purchases during 2001.
It falls short of two supplemental tenders issued by
the military in
1990 for sorties over Baghdad, which amounted to 8.1
million barrels,
but dwarfs a series of supplemental buys made in 1999
during the
U.S.-led NATO air war against Serbia -- the last time
the U.S. was
engaged in significant fighting -- which amounted to
roughly 1.5 million barrels.
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Ramon Acevedo
Comit por la Nueva Colombia
(415) 821-6545
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