Pentagon Buys $82 Million a Month in Fuel From BP, Despite Spill

The organization charged with helping BP plug and clean up a leaking oil drill hole in the Gulf is also providing aid in another way: buying hundreds of millions of dollars of its oil.

Despite heated rhetoric from President Barack Obama -- and the forced creation of a $20 billion fund to pay claims related to the disaster -- the US military is still buying much of its oil from BP. The Pentagon is the largest user of oil in the world, more than any other single nation or corporation.'

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