The U.S.military is buying more than 6,000 of the M-ATVs, at a cost of nearly a million and a half dollars each, including all their equipment, spare parts and transportation to Afghanistan.
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Its analysis shows that the total costof gas, electricity and labor in making transportationequipment and machinery in the U.S. now beats the cost in Germany, France, Italy, the U.K. and Japan.