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REPORT: Stung By High Gas Prices, Uncle Sam Buys Minivans To Replace Army Humvees

by Open-Publishing - Sunday 12 June 2005
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REPORT: Stung By High Gas Prices, Uncle Sam Buys Minivans To Replace Army Humvees
05-23-2005

WINDSOR, Canada - The U.S. Armed Forces have ordered 19,000 minivans and 5,000 Pacificas from the Chrysler Group for use as light-duty vehicles in Iraq and elsewhere around the world, displacing less fuel-efficient Humvees, according to the Windsor Star.

The switch to the gas-powered school-carpool mainstays is designed to reduce fuel consumption and improve passenger-carrying ability. The U.S. military has complained it is inefficient to use Humvees to carry a few soldiers at a time, especially in noncombat situations.

The minivans - all gold-colored - will be built at Chrysler’s St. Louis, Missouri, and Windsor assembly plants.

"The U.S. government has put their down payment on the vehicles and we’re building them already," a plant source told the Star. "They’re supposed to be going to Iraq as taxis and stuff."

What this means to you: The minivan: Soccer-mom tested, U.S. Army approved. Nice to see the government is actually looking to save taxpayers some cash.

Forum posts

  • Spot the disinfo

    1)Old news

    2)This isn’t to save money, it’s to bail out ford/GM(military industrial complex) with taxpayer money

    3)So they will be better protected with minivans?

    thanks for the laugh, now take the corporate fist out your bum-bum and pretend your an american

  • And next year after the totally financial breakdown are the going to ride bicycles?

    • America’s cartoon war, soldiers in minivans getting blwon to bits, but everyone knows in cartoons no one gets hurt.......it gets more and more hilarious by the day.....what a joke!

  • I hope the old bastards who are responsible for this choke and die on their Viagra-that you and I pay for. Have a nice day.

    Signed,

    A Soldier’s Mother