gldstwmn - LOL - I thought of you when I read that article this morning. I think it is a perfect example of slant and spin. I think we need to see Halliburton's cost analysis sheets, their profit to cost ratios, their risk assessment to delivery ratios, their analysis of why if is cheaper in all areas concerned for them to buy more expensive gas in the south than in the north and ship it to the south. Are they restricted from travelling through the highly combative Sunni triangle with highly explosive gasoline? Did the military ask them to do it this way? I think we need to know these things before an accurate judgement can me made. Yet, the NY Times, which BTW I love
, somehow seems to neglect that info and focuses instead on the numbers which on their face are inciting.
Moreover, does anyone expect Halliburton or anyone else to do it for free and does anyone really think that had there been open bidding it would have had any meaningful winner for about a year (it is the govt.) or that the winner would not be doing the same thing as Halliburton?
Food for Thought before Halliburton gets slammed.