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system (the Washington Post recently noted it was
already $200 million in the red and will ultimately cost
$12 billion); and Jubail, called "the biggest boondoggle in
history".
Time, July 12, 1982, wrote of Jubail: "Bechtel has spent
$35 billion and plans to spend $100 billion more.
Bechtel's original contract had been for a modest $9
billion." Jubail is described as lying 324 miles northeast
of the Saudi Arabian capital, Riyadh, with 100 plus
[degree] temperatures most of the year, a desolate area
of salt flats washed by the Persian Gulf. 1600 Bechtel
employees live on the site in 3 bedroom ranch houses
built for $300,000 each, directing the activities of 39,000
construction workers. Time says, "The infant city could
wind up being an enormously expensive ghost town, as
marching dunes are expected to cover it by the year
2000."
Christopher Reid, who worked for Bechtel, says "Jubail is
a massive WPA project, the biggest boondoggle in
history." He predicts that the sands of the Dahana Desert
will shift and cover Jubail before the end of this century.
Saudi officials have stated they do not know who will live
in Jubail, because of the hot temperatures, the isolation
of the area, and the desolate surroundings. Historically,
the dunes of the Dahana Desert shift massively every
few years. Engineers expect the Jubail area to be
completely covered by the year 2000. Future
archeologists will be puzzled by this strange ruin, not
realizing that the entire project resulted from the huge oil