Halliburton subsidiary Kellog, Brown & Root seems to have been doing worse than just overcharging. This 5/23 Contra Costa Times article presents claims by KBR drivers that one third of the runs KBR sent them on were involved empty tankers. The drivers called it running "sailboat fuel". Apparently there are also some videotapes to back this up.
War profiteering at its best or worst?
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WASHINGTON - Empty flatbed trucks crisscrossed Iraq more than 100 times as their drivers and the soldiers who guarded them dodged bullets, bricks and homemade bombs.
Twelve current and former truckers who regularly made the 300-mile re-supply run from Camp Cedar in southern Iraq to Camp Anaconda near Baghdad told Knight Ridder they risked their lives driving empty trucks while their employer, a subsidiary of Halliburton Inc., billed the government for hauling what they derisively called "sailboat fuel."
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