In Iraq and Afghanistan, one Army study found, for every 24 fuel convoys that set out, one soldier or civilian engaged in fuel transport was killed.
The UN petrol was used, he says, to fuel transport of men and boys to the killing fields, and bulldozers to plough the 8,000 corpses into mass graves.
These are not highly paid workers who can weather the huge rises in food, fuel, transport and housing costs that we have seen of late.
Most tour operators will quote a package price that includes food, equipment rental, fuel, transport to and from the river and other incidentals.
That raises the risk of a spectacular official own-goal: if targets encourage people to use the wrong sort of fuel, transport may get dirtier, not cleaner.
"Food, clothes, fuel, transport and other necessities are all competing with council tax and rent for the £73 benefit – there is a massive competition which simply can't work.
There was also low inflation on essentials like food, fuel, transport and utilities, so people had more money in their pockets and were able to gear up for bigger mortgages".
In Kuwait, the oil business is controlled by the state, and Halliburton has claimed that government officials there pressured it into hiring Altanmia, which had no experience in fuel transport.
KABUL, Afghanistan — When a brother and a nephew of an Afghan vice president wanted to build up their fuel transport business, they took out a $19 million loan from Kabul Bank.
