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NASA Admits It Gave Jet Fuel Discounts To Google Execs' Company

Posted by timothy on from the only-tax-money-after-all dept.

An anonymous reader writes "In a letter to Senator Grassley of the Senate Judiciary Committee, NASA 'admits the agency was selling jet fuel at below market rates to H2-11, a company owned by the founders of Google.' The agency has since raised its rates to reflect market prices but has informed the Senator that it would be impossible for NASA to recoup the money that tax payers have paid in order to subsidize Google's jet fuel discounts."

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  1. Really? by The+Cat · · Score: 0, Troll

    Corporate executives drinking deeply from the public well? Shocking.

  2. Re:They sold it at cost? by Chas · · Score: 0, Troll

    And where...EXACTLY...did the taxpayer LOSE money?

    Oh yeah! THEY DIDN'T!

    And where...EXACTLY...is it stated in NASA's charter that they MUST turn a monetary profit on things?

    Oh yeah! THEY DON'T!

    Plus NASA got free use of a jet for science missions out of it!

    So, basically, you, Senator Grassley, and "the taxpayer" DON'T HAVE A LEGITIMATE BITCH.

    So, still sandy about this?

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    Chas - The one, the only.
    THANK GOD!!!