U.S. TAXPAYERS BOUGHT $43 MILLION GAS STATION IN AFGHANISTAN:

A new report from the Special Inspector General for Afghanistan Reconstruction (SIGAR) reveals that the Defense Department spent $43 million on a gas station that should have cost about half a million dollars.

The report studies the Department of Defense’s Task Force for Stability and Business Operations (TFBSO) project to build a compressed natural gas automobile filling station in the country.

But SIGAR didn’t have an easy time compiling the report, stressing that the review ended up being “hindered” by the “lack of cooperation” at the Pentagon.

And while the inspector general’s office said there were problems trying to get the full story of the fill-up station, they never did get an answer about why the project cost so much.

Steven Chu, Obama’s original “Energy” Secretary, committed a textbook Kinsley gaffe when he told the Wall Street Journal in September of 2008 that “somehow we have to figure out how to boost the price of gasoline to the levels in Europe,” but this is ridiculous, even by the wacky standards of Team Obama.