The Pentagon Wasted $43 Million of Your Money on a Gas Station in AfghanistanSam Biddle11/02/15 1:55pm19825EditPromoteDismissUndismissHideGo to permalinkThe gas station you’re looking at, built as part of the Pentagon’s reconstruction efforts in Afghanistan, should have cost half a million dollars. Instead, it cost $43 million, and the U.S. government can’t even explain why.