Comments on: Everything’s bigger in the UAE

By: ALI

ALI — Sat, 11 Oct 2008 15:43:00 +0000

to Snake Plisken, oil makes up only 6 percent of dubais revenues so pleaze ,Americans, spare us of ur whining about gas prices.

By: grover

grover — Tue, 02 Sep 2008 06:44:05 +0000

Snake, Dubai currently makes roughly 5% of its GDP from oil sales & refinement.

By: budanski

budanski — Fri, 29 Aug 2008 18:12:08 +0000

“What is going ON over there?”

Their oil reserves will run dry in about 10-15 years, so their investing all this money to attract tourism for the elite.

By: ftrc

ftrc — Fri, 29 Aug 2008 17:59:04 +0000

and the first rotating building was made in curitiba, brazil. back in 2004.

By: Steven

Steven — Fri, 29 Aug 2008 17:03:15 +0000

Susana, Joe:

It’s the world’s largest arch bridge. I think they left that out on the post here.

By: mememe

mememe — Fri, 29 Aug 2008 16:43:43 +0000

What is going ON over there?

By: Susanna

Susanna — Fri, 29 Aug 2008 16:34:53 +0000

For one, Confederation Bridge linking New Brunswick to PEI weighs in at 12.9 kilometres (8 miles) long. I don’t know if that’s the world’s longest, but it has the Dubai bridge beat 8 times.

By: joe

joe — Fri, 29 Aug 2008 15:36:04 +0000

um, that is neither the world’s longest nor tallest bridge…

…please explain

By: Michelle

Michelle — Fri, 29 Aug 2008 15:17:15 +0000

I believe there’s another 7-star hotel in Beijing.

By: Snake Plisken

Snake Plisken — Fri, 29 Aug 2008 14:55:31 +0000

I am so glad that our hard earned dollars that we pour into our gas tanks week in and week out can really go to something important.