"Developing a new vehicle costs $1 billion to $2 billion today," he said, "and 20 to 30percentt of that cost is wasted now on the outdated information and inefficiencies we have in the system".
If that weren't enough, the more money Gordon Brown claims he can save in the future, the more he must admit he is wasting now.
Running out the clock with the ground game, despite not having a lead large enough, or a running game good enough, to guarantee that you would not gain more from saving the time you were wasting now for later, much more than you gained from losing it now: this seems like a confused approach.
This culminated in a £5m district energy scheme where energy from the incineration of municipal waste, which would otherwise be wasted, is now used to heat eight major public buildings including the cathedral.
An excessive amount of time and effort will now be wasted overanalysing the detail.
Mills, though, has denied dressing-room unrest was behind the departures of Keates and Ashton: "Absolutely not, because if that was the case then I'd be wasting my time now, I'd admit defeat now.
Furthermore billions of patient experiences have been wasted as until now, we have lacked the means to efficiently collect and analyze these experiences at scale.
"So this is actually not something that we should be wasting our time on right now in terms of debating.
Instead of spending more overall, they want to reallocate money that is now being wasted.
And the NAO says tens of millions has now been wasted - with hundreds of millions at risk of being written off.
