Wednesday, July 09, 2008
Getting our dollars back
Is there really any better way to get our dollars back than to trade prestigious real estate for them? We still get to use the Chrysler Building, and Abu Dhabi sends us another $800 million that we can then use to buy, er, six million barrels of oil.
Install the solar, modernize the grid, harness the wind, license the nukes, distill the grass, plug in the cars, and -- because the greens cannot win every battle -- drill here. Now.
7 Comments:
By 
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Thu Jul 10, 07:17:00 AM:
How much of Manhattan do we need to sell to recoup the rest of of the $700 billion dollars we'll shell out to foreign countries for oil this year? Everything north of 14th Street?
And what shall we sell next year? And the year after that?
By 
TigerHawk, at
Thu Jul 10, 07:26:00 AM:
Exactly, but we have to get the dollars back somehow.
By Mrs. Davis, at
Thu Jul 10, 08:38:00 AM:
Didn't the Japanese used to own the Chrysler Building?
By , at
Thu Jul 10, 08:49:00 AM:
With tongue firmly planted in cheek...These guys would probably dismantle it stone by stone and move it to Dubai. After all, didn't we do the same thing with the London Bridge, moving it to Arizona, when the shoe was on the other foot? Of course, rumor control has it that the guys from Lake Havasu, AZ, thought they were getting the Tower Bridge.
JLW III
By Purple Avenger, at
Thu Jul 10, 03:08:00 PM:
The Japanese got burned badly in the 80's investing like this.
By , at
Thu Jul 10, 05:29:00 PM:
If we are selling desalinization technology as well, then we are both stupid and crazy.
Better to sell the product, of which we can be assured a continual and increasing demand.
Oil? In another fifty years we won't need it and OPEC won't be able to sell it. Makes me wonder how they'll continue to pay for their water.
By Jim in Virginia, at
Fri Jul 11, 06:10:00 AM:
The new owners of the Chrysler Building now have a keen interest in preventing a nuke or a dirty bomb from explodng in Midtown Manhattan. They're also betting that won't happen.
I'd be worried if the Arabs started liquidating all their real estate in London and New York.
