En 2007 le pentagone a dépensé 15 milliards de $ pour les carburants. Et chaque fois que le baril prend 1$, la facture totale enfle de 130 millions de $ :
http://news.yahoo.com/s/afp/20080423/pl ... gAuQJsbEwBPentagon worried about spiking oil prices
WASHINGTON (AFP) - After spending 15 billion dollars on oil in 2007, the Pentagon said Tuesday it was concerned over rising prices, since for every dollar oil goes up in price, an extra 130 million has to be added to its budget.
Oil price is "a significant concern for us today," Undersecretary of Defense Tina Jonas, the Pentagon's chief financial officer, told a conference organized by Jane's defense information group.
"Fuel has more than tripled in price over the past four years," Jonas said, adding that "for every dollar increase in the cost of fuel, we end up increasing by 130 million dollars in terms of operational costs."
Oil futures Tuesday leapt to a record close of 119.37 dollars a barrel in New York, after briefly skirting the symbolic threshold of 120 dollars.
The spiraling cost of oil is especially troublesome for the Pentagon since the "DoD (Department of Defense) is the largest consumer of oil in the United States, " David Trachtenberg, former deputy assistant secretary of defense for international security policy, said in his presentation.
Jonas said the Pentagon's overall budget for fiscal 2009, excluding the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan, stood at 515 billion dollars and was expected to increase by 6.5 percent to 549 billion by 2013.
The increase, she added, actually translated to a 3.3 percent drop over the same period, in inflation-adjusted dollars
et on rapelle que le Defense US est l' entité US le plus gros consommateur de pétrole.