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Re:Doordash and Pizza Arbitrage by blaser-waffle on Monday May 18, 2020 @09:58AM (#23222367)
It's not coming and coming -- it's here. Prices are negative, and they need at least something like ~$60/barrel to keep their government running and closer to $80/barrel to keep their whole country running.

But yeah, I agree with your main point: they're jumping at deals and chasing big wins, a la Dubai. Cuz they don't really have any other choice.

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Re:Doordash and Pizza Arbitrage by ryandrake on Monday May 18, 2020 @03:22PM (#23227181)
Sheikh Rashid's quote [1] kind of sums up the desperation of several countries in the Middle East to somehow diversify out of oil: "My grandfather rode a camel, my father rode a camel, I drive a Mercedes, my son drives a Land Rover, his son will drive a Land Rover, but his son will ride a camel"

1: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rashid_bin_Saeed_Al_Maktoum

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Re:Doordash and Pizza Arbitrage by eru on Wednesday May 20, 2020 @08:24AM (#23246047)
Sheikh Rashid was born in 1912. The quote talks about his great-grandson. That generation has been alive for a while and comfortably drives Land Rovers.
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