Suddenly it has come upon us. The emergence of battery charged, electric-driven engines started some time ago, but with the emerging presence and help of Artificial Intelligence, major changes are suddenly visible.
China announces that in the next couple of years it will no longer make gasoline or Diesel engines anywhere in the country. This is followed by news that car manufacturers in Europe have their own, if later deadlines. The writing is on the wall. Soon the technology for replacing fuels for marine and aviation engines will follow and after that it will be a matter of time, all within this generation, that the mid-east oilfields will no longer be able to sell what they produce in the quantities they are used to. A lot will happen before that occurs. The Goan diaspora in the Persian Gulf will melt and hopefully be replaced in their settlement with alternate destinations. Aden, Abadan, Bahrain and Basra were replaced by Beira, Luanda, Dar-es-Salaam, Nairobi and Kampala, which were in turn disfavoured for Abu Dhabi, Dhahran, Dubai, Doha and Muscat. Slowly a part of that melted into Auckland London, Perth and Toronto. What are the next Goan expatriate destinations or have the last frontiers been already populated? Roland Francis Toronto.
