You know, the Saudis buy domestic tranquility with oil revenue. No Saudi citizen (male) needs to have a job, women have virtually no rights, and all actual work is done by indentured-servant nationals of whatever country is winning the race for the bottom of the global labor market.
All that talk about "diversifying" the Saudi economy is a pipe dream. Just as American slaveholders, who lived in comparable idle splendor, fought to preserve it and brought an apocalypse down on themselves, it seems clear the Saudis will fight protect their "heritage." It'll be a big mess, and I shouldn't be looking forward to it as much as I do.
I owned a 400 c.i. GTO in my motorhead days. Modified stock – of course but I wisely left the Rochester 4-bbl on, with its tiny primaries. Total beast. When the pedal went down and those huge secondaries and the ram-air kicked in it was like sitting on top of a rocket booster that left twin patches of rubber in its wake.
911, 325hp, 6-speed. Surprisingly easy to drive smoothly, but sometimes you'd get frustrated in traffic and punch it to put the proles behind you, and no matter what gear you were in you rocketed ahead in a very satisfying way with a lovely übermechanische sound behind you. Three liters = 186 ci, yet it worked quite well.
"It's a bloodbath out here…"
PUMP YOU FUCKERS
Gotta produce enough oil to grease the political chute.
Ya know, I got about two minutes into the reporter's literary tour de force, then went and re-found this from the other day. http://www.juancole.com/2016/04/the-collapse-of-t…
Yes, this is all of a piece with the collapsing old energy/political order (saw this piece elsewhere but didn't realize Juan picked it up).
You know, the Saudis buy domestic tranquility with oil revenue. No Saudi citizen (male) needs to have a job, women have virtually no rights, and all actual work is done by indentured-servant nationals of whatever country is winning the race for the bottom of the global labor market.
All that talk about "diversifying" the Saudi economy is a pipe dream. Just as American slaveholders, who lived in comparable idle splendor, fought to preserve it and brought an apocalypse down on themselves, it seems clear the Saudis will fight protect their "heritage." It'll be a big mess, and I shouldn't be looking forward to it as much as I do.
http://www.trade-schools.net/trades/hvac.asp [?]
If gas gets cheap enough, more people will buy F-350s and Cadillac Escalades, and when the price goes back up, $$$$!
One helluva toy, that.
I'd stick with the Red Shark, though.
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I owned a 400 c.i. GTO in my motorhead days. Modified stock – of course but I wisely left the Rochester 4-bbl on, with its tiny primaries. Total beast. When the pedal went down and those huge secondaries and the ram-air kicked in it was like sitting on top of a rocket booster that left twin patches of rubber in its wake.
It was Trouble with a capital T, but so much fun.
911, 325hp, 6-speed. Surprisingly easy to drive smoothly, but sometimes you'd get frustrated in traffic and punch it to put the proles behind you, and no matter what gear you were in you rocketed ahead in a very satisfying way with a lovely übermechanische sound behind you. Three liters = 186 ci, yet it worked quite well.
If you're going electric, go [big]
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Iran is a beautiful, ethnically diverse country with an ancient culture. "Saudi" Arabia is an oil well with a flag.
Three-quarter view is even better.
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I'm a 9-year-old boy at heart.