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Sunday, October 05, 2003
Let's pour more oil into Iraq U.S. taxpayers footing bill for cheap Iraqi gasoline By MICHAEL HEDGES, Copyright 2003 Houston Chronicle ...... Since the fall of Saddam Hussein's regime last April, Iraq's resuscitated oil industry has been unable to produce enough gasoline, cooking oil and other petroleum products to meet the country's needs. Houston-based Halliburton Co., the contractor hired by the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers to repair the dilapidated energy infrastructure, has been ordered to bring refined products into the country. So far, U.S. taxpayers have spent some $562 million under the Halliburton contract to bring in gasoline and other fuels and make needed repairs to Iraq's gas distribution network, according to the Army Corps of Engineers. In fact, that effort has accounted for nearly half the $1.22 billion worth of work that Halliburton has performed in Iraq since the war. "The benzene we sell here comes from Turkey, Kuwait and Saudi Arabia," said Majed Mohammed, 44, who manages the Mansur station for the Iraqi Oil Ministry.
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