Chapter 625 Layout of the energy market
If it was a sin for John to set up a trap to let the people who shorted the Volkswagen Group stand on the rooftop, then it is a heinous sin to short Germany now!
However, John also knew that if there really was heaven and hell in this world, he probably would not be able to go to heaven, and hell was obviously more suitable for him. I just don't know if anyone will build a playground for him in hell!
After the successful acquisition of the Volkswagen Group and Porsche, John carried out a "purge" of the two companies, transferred many people from General Motors to the two companies, and took important departments into his own hands, and when these people completely controlled the Volkswagen Group, he could start the next plan!
When he got up early in the morning, John came to the dining room to eat, filled himself a bowl of porridge, and picked up the newspaper next to him and read it.
"Diana died in a car accident!"
That's the headline on the front page of today's major media outlets.
But John was not interested in understanding, and turned the newspaper to the next page, what if there will be no dead people in this world, even if she is still a princess now, except for the old lady, John has no friendship with the British royal family, and he is not interested in who dies.
"The Matrix" temporarily topped the annual box office with $890 million. ”
John flipped to the next page and saw what he was interested in.
"The Matrix" dropped yesterday, with a global box office of $890 million, beating Spielberg's "Jurassic Park 2" to temporarily become the champion of the year.
John is very satisfied with this box office, but John knows that this year, there is a big ship in him at most as the runner-up, and the big ship will open the doors of all countries in the world for Hollywood blockbusters with unrivaled momentum this year, and from now on it will be the era when Hollywood blockbusters go out of the United States to dominate the world and complete what the US military has not done!
After breakfast, John returned to his study as usual, and Ariana then walked in with a file.
"This is the Cabinet's bombing plan for Iraq, and it needs your signature to confirm it!"
"Bombing! Why are they endless?"
John took the document and opened it and looked at it, after the end of the Iraq War, the United States has been taking sanctions against Iraq, and it has bombed several times during the period, and now the sanctions are not working, so the cabinet bosses are ready to solve it by force and engage in a "Desert Fox" operation.
After reading the contents, John put pen to paper to reject the plan, closed the paperwork and handed it to Ariana, asking her to take it to Morgan Sr. for approval.
John was not afraid of war, but he hated endless wars, and that part of the Middle East was not worth such American investment.
After Ariana handed the documents to Morgan Sr., Morgan Sr. saw that John did not agree, and called John to his study.
"Do you recommend fighting?"
"Yes Father!"
"Why?
"That part of the Middle East doesn't deserve our investment, one stick today, one stick tomorrow, and it's going to drag us to death.
We can take a step back and wait until Iraq provokes us again, then solve the problem once and for all, so that he will never turn over. ”
War is brutal, it is to solve the problem that civilization cannot solve, at least in John's heart, the problem in that part of Iraq cannot be solved, not because the US military is incompetent, but because the United States cherishes feathers too much, war is uncivilized and cruel, that is, I kill you, or you kill me, until one party no longer dares to resist.
"Do you want an all-out war with Iraq?" said Morgan Sr. after listening to John's words.
"Father, I never want to go to war with them, unless I have to, if one day they have to force me to do it, then I will not keep my hand!"
The problem of Iraq is easy to solve, as long as John can let go and can leave behind all humanity and morality, and John is precisely the kind of person who does not make a move, and once he chooses to do so, he will not cherish his feathers.
"John, if we can kill as few as possible, as long as we can overthrow the government that threatens us, many times the people are innocent, and what the government does does not mean that they support it, and sometimes they are also victims! We can wage war, but we must also retain a trace of humanity, even when Hitler treats prisoners, he will not kill them all. ”
Old Morgan felt that John's mind was very dangerous, and the most important thing was that he was about to go to sleep, and if he didn't say it now, he was really afraid that John would go on a killing spree at that time.
"But father, the purpose of war is to bring the enemy to its knees, and if you can't destroy the enemy's spirit, then you can only destroy their body! John did not think that he had the ability to destroy the spirit of the rebels in the Middle East, and that it was difficult to conquer without violence, so John felt that he should learn from the missionaries, and those who believe in it will die if they do not believe.
"I'm relieved that you can think like this!"
Old Morgan nodded in satisfaction. But he didn't know that John had never wanted to conquer the spirit of this group of people, and he had never .......
John returned to his study and continued his work, and just as he had just gone to the old Morgan's study, a thick pile of folders had accumulated on the large desk.
Old Morgan was about to go to sleep, so he left a lot of things to John to deal with, so as to train John's abilities, so that he would not be in a hurry when he was dormant.
Alaska oil reserve area lifted!
Offshore oilfield reserve area lifted!
Shale oil and gas development plan!
The three documents that John got in succession were all about oil and gas resources, and after a brief reading, John directly signed them with a big stroke of the pen, and from then on the United States will change from a big oil and gas importer to a big exporter.
"Dani, call Charlie!"
After John signed the paperwork, he told Dani to call Xia Li, who was squatting in the laboratory, and he had something he wanted Xia Li to do.
"Zeng...... Great-grandfather, you call me?"
"Yes, sit. ”
"Okay!"
"We want to vigorously exploit shale oil and gas, but the current cost of extraction equipment is too high, can you get some better equipment, so that I can reduce the cost! You can make the equipment design drawings, and then I will let GM make the products themselves, and you are helping them improve the wind energy engine." "The cost of shale extraction is very high, at $70 a barrel, which is not competitive, and it is a loss, unless the cost can be reduced to $30, it can be profitable.
"No problem, this is simple, I'll go back and draw out the design of the mining equipment that can be made with the current technology! Just give me two days!" Xia Li responded, one of Xia Li's jobs is to go to various planets with the scientific expedition fleet to explore various resources, so she is very familiar with mining equipment.
"Okay, hard work, you don't need too cutting-edge mining equipment, you just need to be a little better than the current mining equipment, our housekeeping technology can't flow out now!"
"Yes, okay, understood!"
John only needs to reduce the cost of mining to $30 a barrel, and he doesn't need too high technology. Some cutting-edge technologies are still kept in their own hands.
With the development of oil and gas reserves in the United States and the vigorous development of shale oil and gas, the future energy market will undergo huge changes, and many traditional countries that rely on oil and gas will be unlucky, such as Venezuela and Venezuela next door to the United States.