U.S. To Spend 20 Billion Dollars A Year In Air Conditioning In Iraq, Bases In Afghanistan
U.S. To Spend 20 Billion Dollars A Year In Air Conditioning In Iraq, Bases In Afghanistan
U.S. Army to spend nearly 20 billion dollars a year just for air conditioning of bases in Iraq and Afghanistan, a retired chief inspector said.
Brigadier General Steve Anderson, who served as head of logistics in Iraq, General David Petraeus, said the U.S. Department of Defense (DOD) has been incredibly inefficient use of energy.
“Basically, what we do, we have air conditioning in the desert there, in Afghanistan, Iraq and other places,” Telegraph quoted Anderson as saying.
Taking into account the first fuel, transportation and security, “DOD will spend about $ 20 billion air-conditioned tents and temporary structures,” he added.
Anderson said that the fuel used to power air conditioners with remote bases in Afghanistan, Pakistan, delivered first carried by more than two weeks.
It will cross 800 miles of roads, much smaller than the “goat paths improved,” and areas where the insurgents are using roadside bombs to target troops serving the American war effort, he said.
According to official government figures, the U.S. spent about $ 1.2 billion on the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan, although the actual cost is likely to be much larger, the newspaper said.
When Barack Obama announced last week that 33,000 U.S. troops leave Afghanistan by the end of next summer, opponents pointed out that the war continues to cost 10 billion dollars a month.
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