Middle Eastern governments have pledged $100 billion for building up their rail networks while America, the biggest oil addict on the planet, has no national rail investment plan. Result: we don't have options to driving so we end up giving more oil money to the Middle East so THEY can build them for themselves!
What is the rule drug dealers try to follow? "Never get high on your own product."
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Gulf Arabs on track with rail network
RIYADH, Saudi Arabia, Nov. 19 (UPI) -- Saudi Arabia and its Persian Gulf partners are driving to develop a railroad grid across the Arabian Peninsula that would reduce the strategic threat to their exports of oil, gas and other resources.
The plan is to link the oil-rich region's network to Jordan to connect it to the rest of the Arab world and even Europe through Turkey.
That's a grandiose version of the Hejaz Railway that ran from Damascus to Medina in Saudi Arabia, built by the Ottoman Turks in 1900-08 and a favorite target of Lawrence of Arabia and his desert warriors 10 years later.
READ MORE AT:
http://www.upi.com/Science_News/Resource-Wars/2010/11/19/Gulf-Arabs-on-track-with-rail-network/UPI-69511290193251/
What is the rule drug dealers try to follow? "Never get high on your own product."
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Gulf Arabs on track with rail network
RIYADH, Saudi Arabia, Nov. 19 (UPI) -- Saudi Arabia and its Persian Gulf partners are driving to develop a railroad grid across the Arabian Peninsula that would reduce the strategic threat to their exports of oil, gas and other resources.
The plan is to link the oil-rich region's network to Jordan to connect it to the rest of the Arab world and even Europe through Turkey.
That's a grandiose version of the Hejaz Railway that ran from Damascus to Medina in Saudi Arabia, built by the Ottoman Turks in 1900-08 and a favorite target of Lawrence of Arabia and his desert warriors 10 years later.
READ MORE AT:
http://www.upi.com/Science_News/Resource-Wars/2010/11/19/Gulf-Arabs-on-track-with-rail-network/UPI-69511290193251/
Ken Prendergast
Executive Director
All Aboard Ohio
12029 Clifton Blvd., Suite 505
Cleveland, OH 44107
(216) 288-4883
kenprendergast@allaboardohio.org
www.allaboardohio.org
Executive Director
All Aboard Ohio
12029 Clifton Blvd., Suite 505
Cleveland, OH 44107
(216) 288-4883
kenprendergast@allaboardohio.org
www.allaboardohio.org
