The richest man starts with a blind box

Chapter 445 Only Earn $1
"After all, the United States is still a beacon of democracy! It's rare for Washington to do such a thing!" After hearing this, little Swift couldn't help but praise.

There are many conspiracy theories in the world now. For example, the United States did not attack Iraq for weapons of mass destruction, but for Iraqi oil.

What else? The bag of white powder above the United Nations General Assembly is not a dangerous item at all, but a bag of washing powder.

In addition, the large and small military officers around Saddam have actually been recruited by the CIA, so the United States was able to capture the entire Iraq within two months.

Anyway, there are many such statements, some of which sound very nonsense, and not many people believe them, such as washing powder or something.

But there are some sayings that most people agree with very much, that is, the United States attacked Iraq for the sake of Iraqi oil and the interests of the oil companies behind the United States.

This point, according to the past urine nature of the United States, everyone can guess without guessing.Therefore, many international media have criticized this, and even many domestic media in the United States have also promoted it.

Ever since, this seems to have angered the U.S. government, so the U.S. government publicly announced that they attacked Iraq and overthrew Saddam’s regime in order to completely eliminate weapons of mass destruction and bring peace, freedom, democracy and happiness to the Iraqi people , they have no interest in Iraqi oil.

It's just that the public basically regarded this speech as a joke, and no one believed it.

However, Huang He knew that at the beginning of August 2003, the US government would officially announce their disposal of the local oil facilities in Iraq, that is, to return all these oil facilities to the local government and local people.

This news caused an uproar. Many people said that they misunderstood the United States?It has greatly increased the international reputation of the United States.

"However, boss, if this is the case, then the international oil price and oil stocks should continue to fall, after all, the supply of oil can be stabilized!" Little Swift said.

"Hehe, do you think the Iraqi people are really capable of extracting oil? Even if they extract it, can they sell it?" Huang He asked back.

Historically, the United States has announced this, and they seem to have indeed done so.

After announcing this policy, the local oil fields in Iraq were soon handed over to the local tribes, allowing the local tribes to set up their own oil companies to control the local oil wells.

Such a style makes the world hardly believe that this is something that Americans can do.

But soon, people found that something was wrong.

First of all, there is nothing wrong with the oil wells and oil facilities being handed over to the locals, but the locals simply don't know how to use these facilities!

Except for a few cities with some talents in Iraq, the areas outside the cities are basically controlled by local tribal organizations.

These tribes are good at fighting, but if you let them learn knowledge and culture to operate various oil well equipment and run an oil company, that is completely nonsense.

As for the people who originally controlled the oil wells, because these people were all Iraqi civil servants, they were directly classified as unstable elements, and all were driven away by the US military, and they were not allowed to control the oil wells anymore.

So even if the United States sent the oil wells to these locals, they would not be able to operate these oil wells at all. Some tribes felt that they were awesome and wanted to force them directly. As a result, the oil wells directly responded to them with fire or even explosions.

Within a month, 10% of Iraq's oil wells had problems due to various wrong operations, and some even caused serious accidents, causing a large number of casualties, and black smoke from oil well burning covered the entire sky.

As for the remaining 90 percent of the wells, most of them never started at all, and the local tribes were horrified by the accidents.

Ever since, the Americans jumped out again, and they expressed very enthusiastically that since the locals cannot control these oil wells, the Americans are willing to lend a helping hand and offer technicians and operators to operate these oil wells.

The local tribes only need to entrust them with the operation of these oil facilities, and they only charge 30% of the oil as operating expenses.

From the perspective of the international market, 30% of the operating expenses is ridiculously high, but the local tribes think it’s okay, after all, they can’t control these oil fields, and they can’t make a penny there, so it’s better to hand them over to foreigners In charge of operations, they still get 70% of the oil, don't they?

As a result, the local tribes have signed agency operation contracts with American companies, and then these American companies have transferred a few executives from the United States, and at the same time, they have re-summoned the former oil workers who were expelled from Afghanistan. Come back, work in their enterprises, and then give a salary that is more generous than that of Saddam's era, and these technicians will go to work happily.

So after doing this, the people who exploit the oil are still those people, but 30% of the oil has fallen into the hands of American companies.

But are Americans really only willing to earn 30% to be satisfied?
No, how could they be satisfied with just that.

So the local tribe soon discovered a new problem, that is, although the crude oil was mined, they couldn't sell it at all.No oil seller would be willing to come to their site to buy their oil, so the extracted oil can only be piled up on the local Gobi beach in barrels, and for these oils, the cost of buying tin oil barrels alone makes these The local clan is on the verge of bankruptcy.

So the American company that represented the oil stood up again, still very enthusiastically telling the local tribes that they could be responsible for selling oil to buyers.

It's just that the transportation in Iraq is inconvenient, the transportation is very troublesome, and there are various anti-government armed forces, which are very dangerous. The purchasers' desire to purchase is not high, so they can only sell at a reduced price.

Seeing the piles of oil barrels getting higher and higher, these local tribal elders have no idea, so they can only agree to these American companies.

As a result, under the agency sales of these American companies, crude oil with an international oil price of more than 30 US dollars per barrel was sold to those buyers at a price of less than 5 US dollars, and the profit during the period was as high as five times the horror.

And for the $5 sold, $1.5 goes to the operator, and only $3.5 goes to the tribe.

But in the final calculation of the operation and maintenance costs, 3.5 dollars have to be deducted from the 2.5 dollars. In the end, only 1 dollar is for the Iraqi people.

A barrel of crude oil with an international price of 35 US dollars, in the end, the locals only earned 1 US dollar, and the remaining 34 US dollars were obviously made by American companies. It is simply a big joke.

And you can't say that the Americans have seized Iraq's oil. These oil fields are owned by the Iraqis, and the Americans are just mining and selling them on their behalf.

At the same time, because American companies operate as agents, as well as sales and acquisitions on behalf of them, there is no need to consider issues such as employee benefits, production safety, local environment, and sustainable mining.

Anyway, it is enough to squeeze the oil in the ground, squeeze the employees on the ground, and squeeze out as much profit as possible. Anyway, in a chaotic country, no one cares about how many oil workers die every day.Anyway, as long as the company shouted the slogan of recruiting workers, a large number of impoverished Iraqis rushed to work.

By the way, there is something even more ridiculous, that is, after finally earning 1 dollar, this 1 dollar is often returned to the hands of the Americans in the end, but it is not used to buy food, but to buy various arms and weapons , and then fought with other local tribes in Iraq.

If you don’t buy it, it’s okay, because if you don’t buy it, others will buy it. Others will chug your entire tribe, and then others will become local tribes, gain ownership of oil, and then earn a humble $1 profit from the Americans.

Someone said, wouldn't the locals rebel against this situation?
What a fart to resist, the whole of Iraq is garrisoned by the Americans, not to mention whether the local tribes can fight or not, buyers from other countries dare not set foot in Iraq to buy oil, and those who have the ability to come to Iraq to buy oil , only those American companies that have been approved by the government.

Of course, this mode of exploitation cannot be maintained for a long time, because the exploitation is so severe that the local people cannot survive at all, and even food has become a huge problem.

So soon, the Kurdish armed forces in the Kurdish region, which has a large amount of oil resources, rose up. Through armed negotiations, they tried to gain independence from Iraq while trying to obtain more oil benefits.

On the other side, organizations like IS have also risen, and their ambitions are even more terrifying.

The Americans also quickly discovered that they stationed troops in Iraq. Although the oil companies made a lot of money, the government suffered a lot. Every year, all military expenses were paid to it, and the deficit continued to increase.

So I couldn't bear it, and began to withdraw troops slowly, and then Iraq became even more chaotic.

Today's Iraqis can only hear from their grandfather that the 80s and [-]s belonged to the era of prosperity and prosperity in Iraq.

Closer to home, it is precisely because he knows what kind of tricks the Americans are playing, how they want to be a bitch and set up a torii, so Huang He knows very well how to make profits in the stock market.

As the United States announced in the near future that it will hand over oil to the local people, the international oil price and oil stocks will definitely continue to fall.

Compared with Apple, the market of oil stocks is completely different. If 200 billion US dollars is invested in oil stocks, there will be absolutely no storms at all. Little Swift can switch all of them into stocks in a short period of time.

Next, just wait for time to slowly reveal the truth. American companies have completely gained control of Iraq's oil, and then international oil prices and oil stocks will enter a period of strong growth that lasts for more than ten years.

Anyway, before the end of the second phase of the fund, there is no problem with an increase of three or four times. Little Swift only needs to hold oil stocks unswervingly.

(End of this chapter)