During the construction phase...... <BR> <BR>Dubai, United Arab Emirates <BR> <BR><img src="http://www.wakeworld.com/MB/Discus/messages/65921/460436.jpg" alt="Upload"> <BR> <BR>______________________________________ <BR> <BR> <BR>All finished. Notice the size of the palm trees outside.......... Can you guess what it is ??? <BR> <BR>Remember, this is in the middle of the desert.... <BR> <BR>The very HOT desert where temperatures get up to 120 degrees..... <BR> <BR><img src="http://www.wakeworld.com/MB/Discus/messages/65921/460437.jpg" alt="Upload"> <BR> <BR> <BR>____________________________________________ _ <BR> <BR>Unbelievable! <BR> <BR>But true..... <BR> <BR>It is a self contained Ski Resort.......................The INSIDE view: <BR> <BR> <BR><img src="http://www.wakeworld.com/MB/Discus/messages/65921/460438.jpg" alt="Upload"> <BR> <BR> <BR> <BR>Now you know why gas is $3.50/gallon!!!!

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LOL. Got to love it. Refinement has more to do with the price of gas right now than crude does. <BR> <BR>My opinion is With a liberal congress it will be a while before more refineries are built.

Maybe every 10000 gallons you should get a free trip here?

if I keep up my current consumption I'd get a free trip every 2 years.

They had this on one of those HD discovery channel things where it showed them building it. very cool.

My neighbor was just there last week. He works out there every so often. He said the UAE is absolutely unbelievable. All kinds of Cool stuff out there. <BR>He was tlking about this Indoor Ski Lift and its nice to put a picture to it.

amazing, they call Dubai Vegas on steroids. <BR> <BR>not to nitpick, but it is still a bunnyslope.

been there, and will be back this year. By the way it was privately funded not opec.

Yeah that was on Fuel TV, in the Sorensen Project. From what it looked like nobody cold really shread it.....Duh, they all live in the desert. If you had all the money in the world, wouldnt you do something similar? I know I would...... Good ol' oil.

I thought that was the new Disney "Terrorists on Ice" show. <BR>Or Downhill Dotheads <BR>Or Rippin Ragheads <BR>Or Tobogganing Towelheads<img src="http://www.wakeworld.com/MB/Discus/clipart/rofl.gif" border=0>

Billy, <BR>Your not racist at all are you!!!!!!!!!!

Actually, it's the Hindus, not arabs that sometimes have a dot on their foreheads.....and actually, if I had a pic of a uranium centrifuge cascade...I could really show you what we are funding with revenues <img src="http://www.wakeworld.com/MB/Discus/clipart/uhoh.gif" border=0>

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No actually I'm not a racist. I'm just a redneck tired of paying extremely high gas prices and all the politically correct crap.<img src="http://www.wakeworld.com/MB/Discus/clipart/angry.gif" border=0> <BR>I know Arabs dont have dots, I just thought it sounded cool.

those are old pics

There's a lot of $$$ in Dubai. <BR>Here's a pic of a yacht being launched, sorta... <BR> <BR><img src="http://www.wakeworld.com/MB/Discus/messages/65921/460531.jpg" alt="Upload"> <BR><img src="http://www.wakeworld.com/MB/Discus/messages/65921/460532.jpg" alt="Upload"> <BR><img src="http://www.wakeworld.com/MB/Discus/messages/65921/460533.jpg" alt="Upload"> <BR>Check out the two guys sliding through the transom door.

look at this <BR> <BR> <BR><img src="http://www.wakeworld.com/MB/Discus/messages/65921/460566.jpg" alt="Upload">

I bet this guy wished he had stayed in the oil business <BR> <BR> <BR> <BR><img src="http://www.wakeworld.com/MB/Discus/messages/65921/461147.jpg" alt="Upload">