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When in Rome do as the Romans Do?

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When in Rome do as the Romans Do? "

A few miles outside Ancient Rome is a river thats maybe still flowing... and polluting the Mediterranean?

while nobody has ever tried to filter the water and clean the rivers from rome heading lazily and dangerously pollute the Mediterranean beach and italian beach babes and other roman sunbathers... a lot of companies have moved out of downtown rome... and perhaps a few inces closer to the roman beach? I've recently discovered that the entire "Baltic sea" doesn't have fish anymore? but what about the Mediterranean? Whos responsible for these "MEGA environmental catastrophes?" and is there profit to be made in advertising that your working on Italian environmental catastrophic catastrophe? is it really all them? When in Rome do as the Romans Do? "

you might not be aware of this river but it (if you go the opposite of the wrong natural direction) the river flows up into the hills and then dispersal into the Italian mountainside... its mysterious and you can learn a lot about Italy by looking at the satellite image of the river that made Rome and was before rome ? its maybe a river that ancient civilization use to trace... and you'll see the river die if you study it too carefully and greedily.. some people get really old and move up into its high Italian mountain source... some of them are even famous gay artists... yeah, I mean.. .the river that goes past rome... the river didn't start in Milan... but we can always pretend it started someplace else?? perhaps a more mysterious part of italy... or started with a painting of the "last supper"...

but this river is a real river and it does truly go past rome... it maybe not as strange and normal as the river that passes pairs... because Paris is more like Milan then Modern Rome.. and its maybe always been that way... it might one day be a joke that Paris is Milan? or Romans might rename Milan to Paris? but then there isn't a river in Milan?

anyway Milan and Paris are both turning into modern parking lots... and companies cant get any fresh air anyplace... because of certain companies selling oil for cheap... or worse just to make money and publicly talk about true last profits...

and this river from rome (not really) almost passes one of the worlds seven "Supermajor" oil companies in OUR world... a company that has built a very expensive and ugly rectangular looking building on a very quiet tiny mans made lake that has an eerie hazy green overly stable "pond" look to the marsh that faces a solo company building "HQ" with precisely half the building looking out onto this most important mad made lake...

but the building is far kinda far from the "roman river" that actually come from rome? probably because of "over planning for a possible flood" and a desire to "build bigger government side by side with private industry" and have more space for the future roman business plan??

as history was written all the other cities in Italy where raided ... in fact every port ocean city on earth has been ransacked at least once..?? and to some extent so was Rome in "the war". modern businesses have made it easy to "ransack" .. there are only a few companies supposedly who control "everything" from California (shaped and looks a lot like Italy?)... there is only few (stable) operating systems in america ... for example?

Modern Italy is different then you expect most of the wealth unfortunately is in Northern Italy where most of the proper farm land use to be farms outside Milan. The "south" of Italy is considered the "poor" and a officially a drag on modern Italian finance and resources? the politics is based on "north or south"... or rich and old or young Italy? so whats the real problem with that? well.. its actually not a problem unless you live in a polluted city... or want to drive to work in italy? so the problem is "where should Italian jobs be"?

Milan is .. IS for sure Europeans most air polluted city... you can build a "super fast highway in Milan because its flat... If you have ever seen a LIVE satellite image of Milan it will be terrifyingly simple.. you almost cant see Milan because its as polluted as Thailand, Beijing, or New Delhi? the problem is that you can also build a super fast highway along the west coast of italy but it would take a lot of grandma and grandpas land... ? and then it wouldn't be "rural" clean poor Italian Mediterranean coastlines?

Well, I dont want to mess this up for all of Italy.. and change the entire Mediterraneans future... its a public posting...? and well... Rome isn't Milan Italy in the North but its close its "central italyin" and it might surprise you that "all roads do lead to Rome still?? even in Modern Italy... However there are some interesting alternatives and Islands in the Mediterranean but the area is "notorious" for volcano and supposedly my travel guide to Italy says the "mafia" still controls much of Southern Italy.. (and the ironic thing is that Italy is very very old aged people.. so the "real mafia" is an old guy on a bicycle? One of the most important Hollywood movies of all time italy is actually called "Bicycle Thieves" (Italian: Ladri di biciclette; sometimes known in the United States as The Bicycle Thief) its an old fashion 1948 Italian "neorealist drama" film directed by Vittorio De Sica. Its maybe hilarious and terrifying at the same time...

Anyway, one of the worlds largest oil companies is "Eni S.p.A."? After looking up the companies address and looking at a Street View you start to understand the paradox of modern business and modern life... while I personally believe there really wasn't ever a "empire" back then and that writers like to make it seem ... Rome has been a settlement for almost three millennia and today houses about 2,860,009 +/- a few...

Eni S.p.A.
Piazzale Enrico Mattei 1
Rome, RM 00144
Italy
and I guess you can call them at... 39 06 59821
www.eni.com

so one of the Italian paradoxes this companies employees have to work with every day .. is that although they work for one of the worlds largest oil companies they also work in one of the most un original buildings yet paradoxically "important".. the original designer of the building maybe had the "key" he designed a lake next to the building making the lake the key and not the building? However the small rectangular lake is also very boring and looks like it was designed in the square aftermath of the 1970's... and the building is very boring looking building with overly high security and and young graffiti on the walls a few blocks from the building... . maybe graffiti is an Italian word.. it sounds Italian? Its probably "there" because thats the modern rome business...

on the side of the building is also some quick drawn graffiti that says "eni" in all yellow and black... apparently someone was smart enough to talk with upper ENI management to put the company name on the side of the building not the dead center? Yet the ironic thing is that the gas station across the street says "IP" and the next gas station also says "IP" next to that one.. and then drive a few more blocks and the next gas station is also "IP" but where is ENI? Perhaps there is a secret we are all missing here?

Well the other company is owned by a bunch of brothers... and if you follow the river further to the "unofficial port of rome" you'll see two large "oil" circular storage buildings and nothing else... its like less then .. much less then "one publicly owned" company owns "all" the oil in Rome? today? the port is small and maybe the reason there isn't room for expansion or modern legality has made it impossible to build a new location to store oil...

however the other interesting thing you notice about rome is that all the cars are small.. so the paradox is that if Oil gets cheaper it basically will hurt everyone with more polluted skies. While Milan Italy is "easy" to get polluted because its at the center of a U shaped mountain range with the Italian Alps basically surrounding Milan.. it make it a "modern polluted" nightmare for Italian Government "Italian EPA" regulators.

but if we all know Italians are a bunch of "old grandma and grandpa" mafia... then maybe Milan needs to slowly die? and all of italy needs to be reclaimed as "poor"? Its kinda hilarious the most beautiful part of italy is the "poor part".. and the companies can't hire any of the "kids" to work for them unless they have a Headquarters in Rome or Milan... its one of the Original reasons for Venice being on the water.. everyone "hated" Malian and the rulers hated the city so they made "Venice" as a vacation spot for wealthy Italian farmers... maybe italy has already forgotten that they "invented" pizza for New York and Pasta Spaghetti and my personal favorite Linguine for less then a dollar?

dont think you can "forgive rome"... I mean every famous satanic statue in rome is headless... before the Catholics saw the future of modem religion it was perhaps the "epicenter" of modern paganism... but how did oil start there?

well...

When in Rome do as the Romans Do?

any good news? While its unlikely that the economy will ever recover from coronas hangover and drugs.. the good news is that we will see some "new cool companies" from split ups... its like saying why should google be youtube and google? so many companies have combined to make "super giants" and really not benefited the diversity of or economic ecosystems diversity? so in the past we have seen companies "buy" up all the smaller companies when the economy fails... for example even in the small town that I live in .. many small companies on main street have closed and the secret is that the larger companies are "moving" to the better locations and buying up all the smaller businesses old locations.. the problem is that this results in "bigger and bigger" companies only... does this happen at the top? like for companies that make billions not just millions? Maybe?

However if ENI "sees" the opportunity to make their company larger by making it smaller and more private and "cool and unique"? for example another IP gas station maybe wont help people other then remind people that IP "Italian Petrol" is the only "safe" place to buy gas next to ENI "HQ"..?

so it doesn't matter? how big companies get.. bigger is always better.. ? more facebook more youtube.. more googe? is that what we want.. or are things starting to blow up...

according to ENI's numbers.. the company was falling apart for a long time... the profits have been dropping by billions of dollars for months and months.. even years? so the company needed to change even before the modern virus hangover...?

so how do we do this? if we visit modern italy.. its likely you wont go to visit ENI headquarters.. its in the "really boring" and sick part of rome.. the part of modern rome that even the government doesn't want you to see the mistake it made... in some ways its very smart for modern Italian government to let everyone know that Milan is the modern "powerhouse" and if you really want to know Italy go to rome.. and in rome they had you a "ticket" to see the movie "Bicycle Thieves (Italian: Ladri di biciclette)... and in case you missed the point.. the future isn't italy.. its outside Italy.. the complexity of expansion into the Mediterranean isn't about Italy...

anyway.. for now the government owns the "golden share" or 30% of the company.. and this maybe is the same all over the world... perhaps a more important question is the global argument is how should a modern government control its citizenry? every country on earth except the USA owns stock in their main companies especially oil.. the US

anyway dont believe everything you read.. certainly here... or above here...

italy is an important part of the Mediterranean... its not as important as Japan.. but its close... its connected to Europe unlike Japan...

anyway.. I've written WAY too much about Italy.. there is a lot more to italy... and that maybe isn't just about Rome...? :)

Ironically and perhaps Sadly no matter what happens to italian oil.. they will be rich.. profits will probably go back to about $800,000,000 a "quarter" year... riding on a total revenge revenue of about an unbelievable 18 billion dollars in sales? Wow that means this italian company sells about $2 or $3 bucks of gas per person on earth? If the companies have learned anything from COVID it maybe that things need to change... will companies like ENI "break up" and create new smaller companies or simply just go back to the way they have done business for centuries?

:)

Hope this helps!

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