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By JENNIFER C. KERR, Associated Press | August 1, 2008
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WASHINGTON � Americans used cars hawaii love their cars, and so apparently 3d models cars does Uncle Sam. He's got 642,233 of them.
Operating those vehicles � maintenance, leases, and fuel � cost taxpayers a whopping $3.4 cars columbus billion last year, according to General Services Administration data obtained and analyzed by the Associated Press.
While Cabinet and other officials say they need the vehicles to do their jobs, watchdogs say cheap used cars florida mismanagement of cars pontaic the government fleet is costing millions of dollars a year in basic design of mousetrap cars wasteful spending.
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At the Department of Housing and Urban Development, fuel consumption and inventory are down, yet overall costs have increased significantly. Officials there can't chevy nova project cars figure out why.
The Interior Department american muscle cars corvette was told by its own watchdog that it should cut used cars for under dollars its inventory, but it's added baker cars charleston sc hundreds of vehicles.
The Department of Veterans Affairs has some cars that are barely driven. One just disappeared.
Add to that the cost of drivers, a perk given to high-level government officials.
The Transportation secretary, Mary Peters, has two drivers. Their salaries totaled more than $128,000 last year.
The driver for formula one cars the Health and Human Services secretary, wholesale cars Michael Leavitt, earns about custom cars $90,000 a year. That's more than double the average salary of an office manager or accountant, and cars on ebay about $35,000 more than a cars black book price registered nurse earns, according to a salary calculator provided by CareerBuilder.com.
The government owns or leases sedans, SUVs, trucks, limousines, and removing stripes from cars ambulances for more than three dozen agencies, the American military, and the Postal Service. Are they all really necessary?
"This is one bleeding part of a budget and not just in one department but in a lot of departments," Senator Grassley, a Republican of Iowa and south cars longtime foe of what he considers wasteful federal spending, said. "When you have something bleeding like this, there can be a lot of money nitro cars saved."
Only a handful of rental cars in orlando fl agencies said they have conducted annual audits antique classic cars to ensure their fleets are the right size. All agencies are supposed to rally cars report their annual fleet numbers to the General Services hundui cars Administration. However, the cost and inventory estimates in the GSA's annual report do not include Congress, which white glove classic cars isn't required to report to GSA on its fleet.
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