Oil Investments

Oil wells gush profits into the air close to Houston, Texas. As black oil streams into the sky, the first thing on miners minds is jumping on a jet to Vegas. No other city can satisfy their appetite. Oil barons from Houston fly directly into Las Vegas. When oil was found four miles west outside of Cheyenne, Wyoming, a few girls talked about escorting for oil miners at Rock Springs. News spread to strippers. The miners complained, “We have all this oil money, but nowhere to spend it.” Stripper told brothels owners, bartenders told casino owners, and the airport started direct flights to a small local field near Rock Springs, Wyoming, where miners would arrive by flight to Las Vegas after work on Friday evening, only to return to the oil fields for work by early morning Monday. Money finds a way of finding customers. Small airports bring oil miners in from Alaska by way of Sonoma County, California. Wine makers from Napa use the airport for direct flights from Santa Rosa, California, bringing in the oil billionaires, fly in wine millionaires, and pick up scientists with limousines after the new millionaires start up high tech companies like Twitter, Google, and Facebook in Silicon Valley less than a few hours away south of the vineyards. Las Vegas finds a way to greet new customers. University students are given tuition reimbursement when the casinos employ them as foreign language translators. The city is global. The shopping mall had a currency exchange less than ten feet from Kentucky Fried Chicken, Panda Express, and the changing room where parents can take their children, because everybody arrives in Vegas. We take cash from around the planet.

Reporting from Las Vegas, Nevada

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