FOX News: 'Colossal waste': DOD slammed for $43M, US-funded gas station in Afghanistan
It might be the world's most expensive gas station — not to mention a gross misuse of taxpayer money, according to a top government watchdog.
The Department of Defense spent $43 million to build a gas station in Afghanistan that should have cost roughly $500,000, the lead oversight team monitoring U.S. spending in Afghanistan has found. The discovery came as part of a broader investigation into allegations of criminal activity within the DOD's premiere program to kick-start the Afghan economy.
"It's fright-night at the Pentagon," John Sopko, special inspector general for Afghanistan reconstruction (SIGAR), told FoxNews.com, calling the spending "outrageous to the taxpayer."
WNU Editor: This is beyond dumb. This corruption is breathtaking .... and what is unbelievable is that the Pentagon tried their best to block any investigation on this story.
3 comments:
Is the Gas Station made out of Gold Bullion?
Goat $hit and fairy dust.
It's a Compressed Natural Gas Station, built in a country where there are very few CNG powered vehicles, and the cost of converting a vehicle to CNG is 1 1/3 the average annual income of an Afghan family.
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