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Subject: Wonder what makes gasoline prices go up, up and away?...
>From Richard Russell's commentary:
Costs are out of control, and
priorities are skewed in the interests of rich organized interest groups at the
expense of the vast majority of citizens. For example, war at all cost, which
enriches the armaments industry, the officer corps and the financial firms that
handle the war's financing, takes precedence over the needs of American
citizens. There is no money to provide the uninsured with health care, but
Pentagon officials have told the Defense Appropriations Subcommittee in the
House that every gallon of gasoline delivered to US troops in Afghanistan costs
American taxpayers $400.
"It is a number that we were not aware of
and it is worrisome," said Rep. John Murtha, chairman of the
subcommittee.
According to reports, the US Marines in
Afghanistan use 800,000 gallons of gasoline per day. At $400 per gallon, that
comes to a $320,000,000 daily
fuel bill for the Marines alone. Only a country totally out of control would
squander resources in this way.
Russell Comment --Expensive wars, They're called the "graveyard of
empires."
