Wow - Taxpayers paying $100 a gallon for gas for Iraq/Afghan Wars

[RamboLiberal]

Hybrid Vehicles In Camouflage

With the U.S. Army spending $100 a gallon to buy gasoline and lug it to Iraq and Afghanistan for Humvees, the brass wants to cut its fuel costs. One possible solution: the Army National Automotive Center's push to boost the market for hybrid engine technology. In April, Quantum Fuel Systems Technologies Worldwide Inc. (QTWW ) in Irvine, Calif., gave the Army the first of two jeep-like electric hybrids. The service also is subsidizing purchases by American utility companies of expensive hybrid trucks averaging 27,500 lbs. The goals: promote production of trucks in a size the Army would buy and gather performance data. The Army wants to switch logistics vehicles to hybrids first so they will not only save fuel but also provide electricity for outposts. Later, combat vehicles could become gas misers, too.

http://www.businessweek.com/magazine/content/05_23/c3936057_mz013.htm

This is below Dean article and this is the solitary paragraph.

[BlueEyedSon]

1. See how cheap it is here? Boy are we LUCKY!

[damntexdem]

2. Now, why didn't they just invade a country that had its own oil?

;-)

[RamboLiberal]

3. And aren't we overpaying in Iraq to import oil for Iraqis?

And selling it to them there - when they can get it - at a superlow price of something like .15 a gallon? I remember reading that last year. Is it still happening?