Your Oil Dollars At Work
Posted: Thu 26 June, 2008 Filed under: Cynicism, Thoughts 4 Comments »So, this is one of the projects that we’ll be paying for by paying for petrol. A skyscraper that rotates, and constantly changes shape.
The plans have been revealed, and it would be situated in Dubai – with the possibility of a similar one in Moscow.
And while I’d have my reservations about living in it, it does look seriously cool…
Actually there’s not a lot of oil money in Dubai, it only accounts for less than 6% of the countries revenues. Dubai gets it’s money from free trade, and gold smuggling.
Ok, I’ll bite. What’s your alternative for paying for petrol then? Have you struck crude in the vegetable patch? 🙂
I don’t know if my cynicism chip is overheating but the first thing that occurred to me when watching the animation was that the building would only look that cool if everybody co-operated and pressed their “Rotate!” buttons at just the right time. Something tells me that just wouldn’t happen – there’ll always be one person wanting to turn in the opposite direction to everyone else.
Lionel, I’m not proposing (or even suggesting) an alternative to paying for petrol.
My point is that we’re paying $130ish at the moment per barrel of oil, and that’s going to fund projects like this in the oil-producing countries. It’s also funding Dubai and UAE’s epic development projects like the UAE’s The World and The Palm projects.
Talk about the 21st century’s version of robber-barons…
That building is projected to cost less than half of what the Millennium Dome cost to build 9 years ago.
Makes you think doesn’t it?
Snouts and troughs springs to mind…