So - You say you'd like to know where some of that nearly $3.50 per gallon you're paying for gasoline goes these days?
There is only part of an answer, but you can safely say where it's NOT GOING:
It's NOT GOING to help pay for medical care for the needy public;
It's NOT GOING to pay down taxes;
It's NOT GOING for public projects;
It's NOT GOING to help educate the next generation;
It's NOT GOING towards feeding people, at least not those who may need feeding;
It's NOT GOING for cleaning up the air we breathe - having the opposite effect in fact;
It's NOT GOING for purifying water supplies;
It's NOT GOING towards alleviating poverty, and actually contributes a great deal to that particular problem.
It's NOT GOING for building infrastructure of any kind - unless of course it's for the benefit of Big Oil;
It's NOT GOING for increasing our security - conversely, it generates instability in the world;
It's NOT GOING to pay for the cost of fighting overseas wars - but it DOES help cause them;
It's NOT GOING towards building housing (except as below - and this you must see this to believe!);
But, some of it, A LOT of it, IS GOING towards electing politicians who guarantee that Big Oil always has its way all over the world - and helps keep a very few people paid off to live in a style which we mere mortals can not even imagine. Pictures can only hint at it:
Just in case you are wondering where this beautiful hotel is, this isn't a hotel at all.
THIS IS A HOUSE!
This house is owned by Sheikh Zayed bin Sultan Al Nahyan & family. Sheikh Zayed is the former president of the United Arab Emirates and ruler of Abu-Dhabi.
The automobile below is NOT PAINTED a silver color. The body of this automobile is BUILT out of ACTUAL SILVER. (That really should help prevent a non-existent desert rust problem!)
Amazing what the profits from nearly $3.50 per gallon of gasoline can buy these days, isn't it?
(EVEN, George W. Bush, the President of the United States of America!)
Praise Allah!
Pucker up, Little Man!
“Communism has never come to power in a country that was not disrupted by war or corruption, or both.”
- John F. Kennedy
Interesting piece on Abu Dhabi. The ownership of the UAE Sovereign Wealth Funds is one of the closest secrets of the UN Security Council. The official spin that the rulers of the United Arab Emirates are the beneficial owners of the Sovereign Wealth is a masterpiece of Bush1-era jiggery-pokery. Likewise the official stand on the ownership of the Brunei Investment Authority.
ReplyDelete80% of all the oil and gas fields developed by the Chevron Corp is owned by the same private individuals US/UK family which has given license agreements for exploration and extraction. This so called Chevron parent company is the key to understanding the battle against the Bushes.
Expect a rip-tide to come crashing down on the White House when this story breaks, hopefully around mid spring this year.