Cause countries like this where extraction costs are minimal are charging us huge amounts so they can build stuff like this.

Rotating Skyscraper

After all, they have us by our oil balls.

One more reason to drill for us not them.

fltsfshr

 

i don't know... nice building though.... i say use up all their oil and then we can charge a butt load for ours an get'm back... lol.. it's all a scam anyway.. we're just all jealious it wasn't our idea..

 

they better spend it while they got it, cause in 25-30 years they will have nothing to offer the planet.

LOL

 

oh yes they will....30 years worth of draining America's wealth.

And it's a French firm building it too. The Brits built the indoor ski resort.

Where are the US contractors?

might help the trade balance out a bit

fltsfshr

 

nothing i can imagine will help the trade balance.. gotta get a handle on china before that'll happen..

 

::Cough:: BUSHSHIT! ::cough::

 

These are plans...let's see if this skyscraper is built. Even if this is ever built, I guess I am missing the point. The oil was sold at market prices, and the sellers got their money. What are they supposed to do with it? Every society wastes money. Americans have their monuments to frivolity and useless self-indulgence too:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BvzlZuWrJNw

Not only is this a pitiful waste of money, it's an aesthetic monstrosity.

 

I agree completely with you triman. But the key word is money. Why let it go there when we can keep it here. This is a great industrial nation with no fuel but the fuel is there all around us. We need to develop our oil reserves for us. We need to develop new energy technologies too. Let one pay for the other.



fltsfshr

 

Good point

 

One concern I have with increased drilling is that it make deflect attention from the real problem. What is the projected rate of increase in worldwide oil consumption? Proponents of increased drilling seem to assume that consumption will remain constant.