Taxi rides for pathetically short distances were $12, which explains why you saw so many Mercedes taxis. Tourists bring a lot of money, as does the gambling, and Aruba also manufactures aloe (in the early 20th Century, it produced as much as 70% of the world's supply) and has an oil refinery for Venezuelan oil (it's 19 miles away from Venezuela).
It's a little gold mine of an island.
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