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	Name:	Webmaster -
	Subject:	What Happened to Alternative
	Date:	8/23/2008 8:57:36 PM

It is a shame the US has not invested in alternative fuels. All these years of sending U.S. dollars to the Middle East has allowed them to position themselves as a financial power. Here we sit in debt funding a war to buy more of their oily stuff... Have you seen the investments the UAE is making in aviation and maritime ports? They of course are not worried about alternative fuels... Why would they be?

-- Dubai Maritime City --
More for rich boating entheusiests because it's in the contained Persian Gulf, this new development will be the place to keep your 150 foot yacht.
http://www.arabianbusiness.com/508435-dubai-maritime-city-to-launch-first-phase-of-marina-berths

-- Dubai International Airport --
Six parallel runways and new terminals will make Dubai the passenger and freight hub between Europe and the Asia-Pacific Region.
http://www.airport-technology.com/projects/dubai/

And if that is not enough... Check out all the investments that are being made in other countries by the large UAE entity:

MGM Mirage Investor Dubai World Can Boost Stake
http://www.bloomberg.com/apps/news?pid=20601103&sid=akuX1DBbKx_Q&refer=us

Dubai World buys 20 percent stake in Cirque du Soleil
http://www.suntimes.com/entertainment/stage/1095870,CST-FTR-cirque07WEB.article

Dubai World Buys Queen Elizabeth 2
http://www.worldhum.com/weblog/item/dubai_world_buys_queen_elizabeth_2_20070618/

Dubai World buys Wal-Mart property firm Gazeley
http://www.reuters.com/article/innovationNews/idUSL1071125520080610

I guess I should just send you to Dubai World:
http://www.dubaiworld.ae/en/index.html

The UAE is culturally the most "Western" of the Middle Eastern countries. Much of Dubai World was the vision of Sultan Ahmed Bin Sulayem. I guess you have to give the guy credit of reinvesting the UAE money for the betterment of his country... The same kind of money the ruling Saudi families hoarded for themselves.

Dubai World was the company that won and lost the U.S. port management contract, if you remember that controversial news topic.

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