$400 per gallon gas to drive debate over cost of war in Afghanistan
• Roxana Tiron, The HillThe Pentagon pays an average of $400 to put a gallon of fuel into a combat vehicle or aircraft in Afghanistan. . . . The Marines in Afghanistan, for example, reportedly run through some 800,000 gallons of fuel a day.
Nobody said that war was cheap except, of course, for the likes of Blackwater, KBR, Halliburton, Lockheed Martin, Raytheon, et al.