It's 6 A.M. The light is soft and the air cool. In two hours, it'll be about 95 degrees F, the sun pouring heat onto the pavement until the place feels like one giant hotplate. Around here, oil isn't a dirty word; how does 90 cents a gallon sound? Thanks to vast oil reserves and even bigger natural gas stores (14 percent of the world's total), tiny Qatar, thrust out into the Persian Gulf like a sandy thumb, has the highest per capita income on earth.
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