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Associated Press
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Published: Thu, April 03, 2008 - 4:34 am
Last Updated: Thu, April 03, 2008 - 4:40 am
WASHINGTON (AP) - The Pentagon says the U.S. military isspending about 153 million dollars a month in Iraq on fuel.
Including, gasoline, diesel and jet fuel, the military is
burning through more than 50 million gallons of fuel a month in
Iraq.
Some members of Congress are upset because that cost is coming
at a time when Iraq itself is looking at a potential oil boom this
year. The U.S. special inspector general for Iraq says Iraq's oil
revenue could approach 60 billion dollars.
Democratic Senator Carl Levin of Michigan and Virginia
Republican John Warner are calling for an investigation of how
Iraq's government is handling its money. In a letter to the
Government Accountability Office, the senators question why
taxpayers are footing a big part of the cost of basic services and
reconstruction in Iraq's at a time when it's earning billions from
oil.
(Copyright 2008 by The Associated Press. All Rights Reserved.)
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