Jim. You are SO right. ! Well done. Kinda Like Springfield . Don't Ya think ? Maybe we should sell oil. I can remember when some water well drilling companies that were drilling for water here in Missouri would hit oil and other products before they hit water. I know !!! We could buy oil from them now and when they jack the price up . We could sell it back to them. Buy My Butter!!! I would show them my Gravity powered electric generator for 800 billion. I could send them a drawing for half that amount. But the check would have to clear my bank before I could allow them to open the envelope. Larry The Fairtax Guy In a message dated 12/19/2008 11:26:28 AM Central Standard Time, rail...@sbcglobal.net writes: Interesting! ! ! However, I do wonder how much we should consider Abu Dhabi as a good financial operational model for Springfield.
Since the price of crude oil dropped like a rock recently, Abu Dhabi has gone from being super-rich money magnet to near bankruptcy. Building has stopped. Foreign workers (doing all the building) have been expelled. Half-finished skyscrapers are deserted. Foreign investment in A.D. is zilch. Their financial support for 'new' developments (including alternative energy sources) has stopped. Maybe A.D.will come back if oil prices increase again. Jim Hornaday **************One site keeps you connected to all your email: AOL Mail, Gmail, and Yahoo Mail. Try it now. (http://www.aol.com/?optin=new-dp&icid=aolcom40vanity&ncid=emlcntaolcom00000025) --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ This is a Free Speech forum. The owner of this list assumes no responsibility for the intellectual or emotional maturity of its members. If you do not like what is being said here, filter it to trash, ignore it or leave. If you leave, learn how to do this for yourself. If you do not, you will be here forever. -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---