How much did the military spend yesterday? $2.6 billion

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Yesterday the Defense Logistics Agency (DLA) spent just over $2 billion, an award spread out to 11 companies, on a year's worth of fuel. The big winner in the group of 11 was “Tesoro Refining and Marketing” out of San Antonio, Texas with a $348 million fuel contract. Quotations are used because Tesoro changed its name to Andeavor two years ago and the company was acquired by Marathon Petroleum the following year. Incompetence or deception on the part of DLA reporting? Hard to say.

This information is provided to highlight just how much taxpayer money is spent, per day, to enrich companies participating in the military industrial complex. The idea that our economy requires a governmental redistribution of wealth from individual taxpayers to large corporations that are friendly and well-connected to government came from the Keynesian argument for demand “stimulus” -- that our economy's health depends on higher and higher levels of spending. For this reason, personal saving is discouraged and often penalized by the government. But because individuals still tend to follow personal incentives to save, the Keynesian argument remains in effect: that government should spend money the public is reluctant to spend through tax-and-spend policies.



Below are the contracts awarded by the Defense Department
August 1, 2019
totaling $2,685,396,376

Recent record daily spending: $10 billion on May 8, 2019


Defense Logistics Agency - $2,114,068,097


Tesoro Refining & Marketing (San Antonio, TX) $348,692,953
BP Products North America (Chicago, IL) $315,599,804
Par Hawaii Refining (Houston, TX) $271,472,321
Valero Marketing & Supply (San Antonio, TX) $260,554,844
Equillon Enterprises d/b/a Shell Oil Products (Houston, TX) $228,126,037
BP West Coast Products (Blaine, WA) $157,502,370
US Oil & Refining (Tacoma, WA) $156,746,055
Petro Star (Anchorage, AK) $110,836,555
Phillips 66 (Houston, TX) $58,246,377
Petro Star (Anchorage, AK) $52,630,968
Sysco Raleigh (Selma, NC) $49,019,871
Epic Aviation (Salem, OR) $38,905,276
Sinclair Oil (Salt Lake City, UT) $38,197,366
Oshkosh Defense (Oshkosh, WI) $27,537,300

US Transportation Command - $328,000,000


Crowley Logistics (Jacksonville, FL) $328,000,000

Air Force - $104,461,631


Raytheon (Woburn, MA) $36,250,251
Summers Concrete Contracting (Hahira, GA) $25,000,000
Verdis / Takisaki JV (Coeur d'Alene, ID), National Native American Construction (Coeur d'Alene, ID), Global / Northcon JV (Hayden, ID), Imperial Construction NW (Wapato, WA) $23,000,000
L3 Technologies Link Training & Simulation Division (Arlington, TX) $10,411,380
University of Dayton Research Institute (Dayton, OH) $9,800,000

Army - $86,168,765


Kinder Brothers Excavating (Dexter, MO), SYTE (Chicago, IL), Randy Kinder Excavating (Dexter, MO), C&M Contractors (Doniphan, MO) $50,000,000
Sehlke Consulting (Arlington, VA) $9,999,500
P&S Construction (N. Chelmsford, MA) $9,457,700
Nisou / LGC JV (Detroit, MI) $8,945,520
Navistar Defense (Lisle, IL) $7,766,045

Navy - $42,697,735


Lockheed Martin Mission Systems & Training (Baltimore, MD) $18,849,765
BAE Systems Land & Armaments (Minneapolis, MN) $8,411,293
Leidos Innovations (Gaithersburg, MD) $8,208,133
EFW (Ft. Worth, TX) $7,228,544

Defense Intelligence Agency - $10,000,148


CoSolutions / EIS JV (Sterling, VA) $10,000,148

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