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To: Road Walker who wrote (256790)	10/23/2005 8:52:16 AM
From: Elroy	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 1576628

More local benefits of high oil prices Per capita consumption highest in the world gulf-news.com Water consumption in the UAE is the highest in the world, exceeding 100 gallons per person every day with an annual growth rate of 8-10 per cent. ----- Oh, err, never mind. I guess that's due to the sun, not the oil price...

To: Road Walker who wrote (256790)	10/23/2005 2:49:47 PM
From: tejek	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 1576628

But based on what we know about Mr. Libby's and Mr. Rove's hysterical over-response to Mr. Wilson's accusation, he scared them silly. He did so because they had something to hide. Should Mr. Libby and Mr. Rove have lied to investigators or a grand jury in their panic, Mr. Fitzgerald will bring charges. But that crime would seem a misdemeanor next to the fables that they and their bosses fed the nation and the world as the whys for invading Iraq. Unfortunately, Cheney, Rove and Rumsfeld got what they wanted..........a war in Iraq........and it will be harder to get out than it was to get in in the first place. ted

To: Road Walker who wrote (256790)	10/23/2005 2:59:55 PM
From: tejek	Respond to of 1576628

There is so much corruption and cronyism, its hard to know where to begin. ****************************************************** Pentagon Program Costing Taxpayers Millions in Inflated Prices** By LAUREN MARKOE and SETH BORENSTEIN Knight Ridder Newspapers WASHINGTON - The Pentagon paid $20 apiece for plastic ice cube trays that once cost it 85 cents. It paid a supplier more than $81 apiece for coffeemakers that it bought for years for just $29 from the manufacturer. That's because instead of getting competitive bids or buying directly from manufacturers like it used to, the Pentagon is using middlemen who set their own prices. It's the equivalent of shopping for weekly groceries at a convenience store. And it's costing taxpayers 20 percent more than the old system, a Knight Ridder investigation found. The higher prices are the result of a Defense Department purchasing program called prime vendor, which favors a handful of firms. Run by the Defense Logistics Agency (DLA), the program is based on a military procurement strategy to speed delivery of supplies such as bananas and bolts to troops in the field. Military bases still have the option of getting competitive bids, but the Pentagon has encouraged them to use the prime vendor system. At the DLA's main purchasing center in Philadelphia, prime vendor sales increased from $2.3 billion in 2002 to $7.4 billion in the fiscal year that ended Sept. 30. The Defense Department touts the program as one of its "best practices" and credits it with timely deliveries that have eliminated the need for expensive inventories and warehousing. For purchases under the food prime-vendor program alone, DLA claimed a savings of $250 million in five years. But those savings would have happened even without turning to the prime vendor program, competing suppliers say. For years, most suppliers have offered goods on an as-needed basis so that the military doesn't need to store them in costly warehouses. continued................. kansascity.com