brarded bruce - Your link, "Houston-based Halliburton Co., the contractor hired by the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers to repair the dilapidated energy infrastructure, has been ordered to bring refined products into the country.

So far, U.S. taxpayers have spent some $562 million under the Halliburton contract to bring in gasoline and other fuels and make needed repairs to Iraq's gas distribution network, according to the Army Corps of Engineers. In fact, that effort has accounted for nearly half the $1.22 billion worth of work that Halliburton has performed in Iraq since the war.

Instead of blaming Iraqi fuel prices (which according to your link, have always been subsidized in Iraq) perhaps you should put a little pressure on Halliburton to do what millions of tax dollars have paid them to do.