The plant’s reliance on diesel as a fuel has contributed to its inefficiency. Diesel is both expensive and dangerous to transport in Afghanistan, McClatchy reports. USAID reviewed of alternative fuels for the plant, but “failed to identify a more economic fuel supply” other diesel, according to Sopko’s letter.

Here's why.

Well at least it wasn't a boat slip in the desert........................................

Diesel is a fossil fuel that causes global warming and thanks to carbon taxes it is purposefully not economical

"Afghanistan's ongoing transition from diesel fuel to lower cost sources of energy demonstrates that the Afghan energy sector is becoming more affordable for businesses and individuals," Ben Edwards, USAID spokesperson, said in a statement emailed to Newsweek on Thursday.

Those lower cost energy sources are what the western leftist-marxists call "green" when it means layoffs in the US and outsourcing of jobs.

And republicans wanting to cut spending can only be because they want women and children to suffer. -Harry Reid.