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Old 06-20-2002, 02:36 AM  
Brown Bear
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Yeah, as soon as the oil in the middle east starts to dry up, they're fucked! These countries economies are so dependant on oil its crazy. They better figure out something else to produce, or else they're gonna be even poorer than they are now.

They have shitty land for agriculture. They don't really have much mining, forestry, or fishing. They have a largely uneducated population, so technology industries are unlikely to sprout up there. And I seriously doubt that tourism will ever be a big money maker in the middle east. So, a few more decades of oil exporting is all they have until they're completely fucked.
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