Oil Prices?

[project.one]

Not following the news? Wondering where all the oil and gas money is going? Why are prices soaring?

Let's take a look at the answer with a set of really amazing pictures.

Dubai in 1990



The same street in 2003



Dubai 2007



Dubai is said to currently have 15-25% of all the world's cranes.



The Dubai Waterfront.

When completed it will become the largest waterfront development in the world.
All of this was built in the last 5 years.



The Palm Islands in Dubai

New Dutch dredging technology was used to create these massive man made islands. They are the largest artificial islands in the world and can be seen from space. Three of these Palms will be made with the last one being the largest of them all.




The Palm Islands in Dubai

Upon completion, the resort will have 2,000 villas, 40 luxury hotels, shopping centers, movie theaters, and many other facilities. It is expected to support a population of approximately 500,000 people. It is advertised as being visible from the moon.



The Palm Islands in Dubai



The World Islands

300 artificially created islands in the shape of the world.
Each island will have an estimated cost of $25-30 million.




The Al-Arab hotel in Dubai

The worlds tallest hotel. Considered the only '7 star' hotel and the most luxurious hotel in the world. It stands on an artificial island in the sea.



Hydropolis, the world's first underwater hotel

Entirely built in Germany and then assembled inDubai, it is scheduled to be completed by 2009 after many delays.





The Burj Dubai

Construction began in 2005 and is expected to be complete by 2008. At an estimated height of over 800 meters, it will easily be world's tallest building when finished. It will be almost 40% taller than the the current tallest building, the Yaipei 101.





Downtown Dubai rendition 2008-2009

More than 140 stories of the Burj Dubai have already been completed. It is already the worlds tallest man made structure and it is still not scheduled to be completed for at least another year.





The Al Burj

This will be the centerpiece of the Dubai Waterfront. Once completed it will take over the title of the tallest structure in the world from the Burj Dubai.





The Burj al Alam or The World Tower

Upon completion it will rank as the world's highest hotel. It is expected to be finished by 2009. At 480 meters it will only be 28 meters shorter than the Taipei 101.




The Trump International Hotel & Tower

The Trump Tower will be the centerpiece of one of the palm islands, The Palm Jumeirah.



Dubailand

Currently, the largest amusement park collection in the world is Walt Disney World Resort in Orlando, which is also the largest single-site employer in the United states with 58,000 employees. Dubailand will be twice the size. Dubailand will be built on 3 billion square feet (107 miles) at an estimated $20 billion price tag. The site will include a purported 45 mega projects and 200 hundred other smaller projects.



Dubailand Rendition



Dubailand Site Location




Dubai Sports City

A huge collection of sports arenas located in Dubailand.




Currently, the Walt Disney World Resort is the #1 tourist destination in the world. Once fully completed, Dubailand will easily take over that title since it is expected to attract 200,000 visitors daily.



The Dubai Marina

The marina is an entirely man made development that will contain over 200 highrise buildings when finished. It will be home to some of the tallest residential structures in the world. The completed first phase of the project is shown.

Most of the other high rise buildings will be finished by 2009-2010. The Dubai Mall will be the largest shopping mall in the world with over 9 million square feet of shopping and around 1000 stores.



Ski Dubai

Ski Dubai already open, is the largest indoor skiing facility in the world. This is a rendered image of another future indoor skiing facility that is being planned.

Some of the tallest buildings in the world, such as Ocean Heights and The Princess Tower, which will be the largest residential building in the world at over a 100 stories, will line the DubaiMarina.




Other Facilities (Not Shown)

The UAE Spaceport would be the first spaceport in the world if construction ever gets under way.

The Dubai Metro system will become the largest fully automated rail system in the world.

The Dubai World Central International Airport will become the largest airport in size when it is completed. It will also eventually become the busiest airport in the world, based on passenger volume.

There are more construction workers in Dubai than there are actual citizens.

Snopes Check

Ski Dubai Snopes

Infinity Tower Snopes

Solid Silver Car Snopes



Not solid silver but it sure looks like it.

Sky Tennis Snopes

Andre Agassi plays sky tennis

[stephen_c]

and by 2020, it'll look like this,



cuz of all that crude they sold us which we burned into greenhouse gases that melted the ice caps flooding the oceans where they live.

nice lookin city thou.

[pstylez]

Word, it is silly to put so much money into something that is right on the waterfront. A 3 meter rise in water level around the earth will put Dubai underwater.

[Grapes]

Foresight was never a big part of the human condition.

[SEAN!]

heh, theres alot of different factors that influence the price of crude oil. but if you want to be simple minded about why things are the way they are and obviously you want it told in pictures , then you should take a look at this.

the middle east's contribution
http://www.uslaboragainstwar.org/img...h.november.jpg

the real driver...


theres alot of bad things going on in dubai but they have absolutley nothing to do with the current oil prices

[thebobman]

[robyn]

when 80% of your population is made up of pakistanis working for $8 a day construction is considerably cheaper

[ebbomega]

Had to post this. gacked from another forum (kudos to komega, even though he doesn't post here and prolly never will)

[KrisisID]

United Arab Emirates has so much money, they don't know what to do with it.

[inside]

I used to live with a dude from Dubia. He showed me pics of the apartment he lived in and it was pretty crazy. He also had a pic of the street in front of his place, every second car was a Ferrari, Lambo, McLaren, Lotus.

[P.A.R.T.Y]

I worked at Cypress with a guy who lived in Dubai for most of his life who was telling me all about Ski Dubai. Interesting idea to have a ski resort in the burning hot desert.

[esoter1c]

I walked past a guy from Dubai once.

He smelled funny.

[Big R]

Originally Posted by KrisisID

United Arab Emirates has so much money, they don't know what to do with it.

judjing by the pictures they obviously do.;)


btw went there last summer, its only that one little area thats balling, and yes a shit load of cranes.

[miss.myra]

yeah, we've been bitching about oil prices since the 70's really.

but hey, with everything we know and see now about how fossil fuels effect the environment, let's keep bitching because it clearly does a lot of good!

:P

ps- bla bla bla supply and demand..bla bla

[Senior]

this might be the dumbest thread FnK has seen in a long time and that's saying a lot!

[Silverwinged]

BRB GOING TO DUBAI l

[Senior]

and as far as Dubai sinking because of climate change you guys should look Holland's dike system. rich countries are in far less in danger of climate compared to poor third World countries.

[ebbomega]

Originally Posted by Senior

and as far as Dubai sinking because of climate change you guys should look Holland's dike system. rich countries are in far less in danger of climate compared to poor third World countries.

Uh.....

Richmond?

[Grapes]

Originally Posted by project.one

Not following the news? Wondering where all the oil and gas money is going? Why are prices soaring?

Are you following the news?

Do you really think prices are soaring because of what Dubai is making some fancy buildings?

Prices are soaring because our world/economy runs on crude oil, and there isn't much left.

[wishbone]

Originally Posted by Grapes

Are you following the news?

Do you really think prices are soaring because of what Dubai is making some fancy buildings?

Prices are soaring because our world/economy runs on crude oil, and there isn't much left.

let me try and assist dave's argument visually.



Now, the UAE isn't on there. If the oil selling nations are the ones reaping profits, shouldn't canada be balling with 2km tall skyscapers and gold-dipped cars?

Funny thing is you ppl complain about oil prices when Canada holds 70% of the worlds oil if you include the oil sands. If the high demand continues keeping prices high... we could have every city in Canada looking like Dubai, even if we pay Canadian workers union wages.

But were to humble of a country to let the world hate us in jealousy.

[project.one]

Originally Posted by Grapes

Are you following the news?

Do you really think prices are soaring because of what Dubai is making some fancy buildings?

Prices are soaring because our world/economy runs on crude oil, and there isn't much left.

I just copied and pasted from an email. Just thought it was neat. Didnt care much to go and edit text. Just thought it was cool to see how fast Dubai is growing and whats planned for it.

[Senior]

Originally Posted by ebbomega

Uh.....

Richmond?

if we want to we have the resources to build a better dike system around Richmond and Tsawwassen/Ladner for that matter. but hey the US could have around New Orleans as well. key words could have.


I see a future with someone saying...
"Stephen Harper doesn't like Chinese people."

[crookedking]

Originally Posted by Grapes

Foresight was never a big part of the human condition.

you could probably get a sweet job as a surveyor over there.

[cubed]

I'm a firm believer it's because of Tim that oil prices are so high.