I never realized how much money oil and oil related companies were making from the Dept of Defense.

[Nickster]

I just happened to check out some of the DoD procurement numbers for fiscal year 2006. I looked particularly at the numbers for the Defense Logistics Agency and their top 50 companies that they do business with, which can be found here:

http://siadapp.dior.whs.mil/procurement/historical_reports/statistics/p01/fy2006/top100.htm

I summarized a little bit of the data here, but from what I can see, there are at least 7 of the top 20 companies that are oil and oil related. Out of the top 30 companies, I'm counting approx 6 billion dollars in sales to these oil companies, or about 21.8% of total DLA spending for FY 2006.

Lots more data to look through at the link above, this is simply a subsegment of total DoD spending, it just made my mouth drop open when I saw it.

TOTAL DLA (DD350 REPORTS) $ 31,465,050,776

TOTAL DLA TOP 50 $ 19,029,161,370

RANK COMPANY NAME TOTAL $
1 PUBLIC WAREHOUSING COMPANY $ 1,697,482,551
2 AMERISOURCEBERGEN CORPORATION 1,345,127,541
3 B P PLC 1,198,889,893
4 EXXON MOBIL CORPORATION 1,174,895,491
5 N.V. KONINKLIJKE NEDERLANDSCHE 1,147,860,935
6 KUWAIT PETROLEUM CORPORATION 1,011,270,194
7 NATIONAL AGRICULTURAL COOP 761,174,397
8 MCKESSON CORPORATION 667,110,154
9 VALERO ENERGY CORPORATION 661,171,541
10 CARDINAL HEALTH, INC 628,552,799
11 REFINERY ASSOCIATES OF TEXAS 576,557,185
12 ABU DHABI NATIONAL OIL CO 494,286,000
13 BAHRAIN PETROLEUM COMPANY 477,495,614
14 SK CORPORATION 402,650,951
15 GS CALTEX CORPORATION 356,238,293
16 UBS PROVEDORES PTY, LTD 343,824,940
17 TESORO PETROLEUM CORPORATION 309,498,484
18 GENERAL ELECTRIC COMPANY 284,533,336
19 KEMYONG FARM, LTD 277,237,913
20 SCIENCE APPLICATIONS INTERNATIONAL 276,820,652

[tech3149]

1. The most important fuel for the military is money but oil is a close 2nd n/t