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Wirklich reich...

... only the sheikh.

And it will change anything soon, oil prices breaking new records almost every week.

But the sheikh has to start small. The mirror reported in 1948 aus der saudischen Wüste:

Auch Ibn Saud, den die Araber bei seinem ersten Namen Abdul Aziz ("Diener des Mächtigen") nennen, ist mit seinen amerikanischen Freunden zufrieden. Für jedes Faß Oel erhält er 21 Cent, der höchste Ertragsanteil, der irgendwo auf der Welt gezahlt wird . Da die ARAMCO [Arabian-American Oil Company] täglich 250000 Faß produziert, kann der König alle 24 Stunden 52.5 Dollar und jährlich ungefähr 20 Millionen Dollar einkassieren. Ende 1949 wird es doppelt soviel sein.

Ein Barrel Öl kostete 1948 ca. 2$, der Anstieg auf 5$ pro Fass löste 1973 die erste Ölkrise aus. Inzwischen fördern die Saudis bei einem Oil prices above 100 $ 8 million barrels of oil per day, the net revenue from crude oil exports per year amount to 25-30 billion dollars.

Whether the children are told in Riyadh horror stories of the terrible time when the royal clan still had to make do with 52 $ per day? The wishes of the Sheikh in 1948 were accordingly modest: made

Like any other newly rich, Ibn Saud on the tour, bought cars, radios, refrigerators and furniture for his palace. In its capital, Riyadh install electric light and he had to build a paved road. The ARAMCO acted as purchasing agent of the king. They got him everything from the Silk fabrics for its women to electric generators.

provided for the welfare of the local American Friends: The

ARAMCO has set up schools for Arab children and their American employees mandatory Arabic language lessons. She teaches modern Arab country processing methods, encourages them to go into shops and drills, which record the grateful residents of the desert, expensive water fountain.

And otherwise behaved like the Americans behaved dhimmis:

The 2000 American-ARAMCO employees comply with the Friday, the Muslim Sabbath, a rest day. Sunday is a normal working day. bells that had been brought to the schools of the company from America, were removed when the Arabs took offense at it because she remembered the sound of bells from Christian churches.

touch As a pious Muslim alcoholic beverages will not even serve them, the ARAMCO was lenient, and imported Indian house boy. The work is interrupted three times daily, so pray the Arab workers and bow toward Mecca can. The Company will provide places for prayer and to the previous hand washing.

guest workers in Saudi Arabia: they open up oil reserves to invest, Hundreds of millions of dollars in infrastructure, take care of the needs of the population (schools, water supply, agriculture) and respect the culture of the host.

And the sheikh was pleased with his dhimmis. So pleased that he did not punish the Americans for their government's policies. Ibn Saud threatened just a bit:

"I told my brother [Abdullah of Transjordan], that I am willing to offer me and my sons for Palestine I would add now that oil to me is not more expensive than my sons. . The licenses will be canceled if circumstances require. "

But as far as it did not. Die Dhimmis durften weiter Öl fördern und Geld ins Land pumpen. Wirklich großzügig, der Scheich.