In case you weren’t aware, selling oil makes people rich. How rich you ask?
Rich enough that one Abu Dhabi hotel installed a vending machine in its lobby… nothing unusual there, right?
It doesn’t vend soda or food, it doesn’t even vend iPhones… no, it vends gold. Yes, gold.
Read it for yourself: http://news.yahoo.com/s/afp/20100513/od_afp/uaegoldoffbeat_20100513120103
Keep that in mind the next time you fill up your SUV.