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Originally posted by basschick
12clicks, serious question. i understand why a business would try to make the most of a financial opportunity, but why didn't the u.s. government get bids on this and get the best price for the gas? that is sop for businesses and individuals.
perhaps i am remembering wrong but i read a while back in major news services that there were no other bids asked for from large oil companies.
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Halliburton does things that no one else in the world does. They have tools vehicles and abilities in the volume that no one else has. When the US calls upon them to jump, halliburton says "how high?"
You pay a premium for that type of response no matter what business you're in.
Now, ask companies to handle transporting oil in a war zone rife with terrorist attacks (and your tankers make juicy targets) and just how many companies do you think *can* do it?
And shouldn't *one* company be used over and over in such situations so that there is a working relationship and understanding between the military and the contractors working for them?
War is not the place to go looking for the cheapest bid. We don't need a "Value Jet" type company putting people at risk because they were the low bid.