I missed that one. Do you have a link or remember the name of the column?
http://www.marksteyn.com/greatesthits.cfm
"I’m pleased to report, then, that the obscene Oil For Food program has been radically privatized. In much of Iraq, the government petrol stations have been pillaged and the gas pumps stripped of their metal panels so that they stand on two thin metal pins, their hoses hanging loose, like R2D2 before he goes in for a service. Instead, entrepreneurial Iraqis stand along the roadside with small tanks of mysteriously acquired petrol. Heading back to Jordan, I pulled up in the desert. “How much for a fill-up?” I asked.
“Ten dollars,” he said.
“I’ve only got a 20,” I said.
“That’s good,” he said. “Bush,” he added, pointing to the picture of Andrew Jackson on the bill.
“Close enough,” I said. Afterwards, he wanted another 20 for his seven-year old boy. I’m a softie but not that soft, so I fished out a Canadian 20.
“What this?” he said suspiciously. “American one dollar?” He pointed to the Queen’s portrait. “Who this?”
“George Washington,” I said. He’ll have a hard job getting rid of the Canadian but that Yankee 20 he’ll change in one of the stores back in town and he’ll do himself and the local economy more good than the UN’s bloated boondoggle ever will."