I do not know, you are right probably, China is the biggest buyer of many categories of products, buick could be one of them.
In China, taxes on gaz has been low along decades compared to Japan and Europe. It pushed high comsumption cars. Since some years ago, it is mid way between USA on the one hand and Europe and Japan on the other hand. The trend is to make them as high as Europe and Japan, I hope it happens as soon as posible. Those taxes will help to develop railway and underground transportation, collective transportation is the real goal. My wish is to make those taxes very high, even higher than in Europe and Japan. Also I think that is important to ban cars in the city center. Beijing is surrounded by rings, roads that encircle the city. To make the side into the first ring full pedestrian (except a few hours a day for professional transportation of goods) is possible now. A huge part of that side is pedestrian already and in five years, once Qianmen and Zhongnanhai will be closed for cars, the area where cars are allowed will be a fraction of the area into the first ring. But Tiananmen, the city center, will be crossed by a car street yet. In my opinion, that area should be car-free to make that most Beijiners choose collective transportation instead of cars for local trips. Or, as an option, to make a tunnel for cars crossing Tiananmen and the whole city center without any exit into the ring. This would develop a trolley network inside the area into the first ring. This debate is currently alive in Beijing. But what I think is what finally will win, we have no option but to reduce oil consumption by all means. According to some people working on urban planning and design, what I think is not only posible but cheaper once investments are made because it would save a lot of oil every year. And something like that is the future, no option. Peace and best wishes. Xi On Jan 26, 6:40 pm, silver <[email protected]> wrote: > Isn't China the biggest buyers of the Buick? > The Buick was always a polluting gas guzzler. > On Jan 26, 8:54 am, "[email protected]" <[email protected]> wrote: > > > > > Really? 20 years? wow ! > > > :) > > > On Jan 26, 3:09 am, Kamakazee <[email protected]> wrote: > > > > It is great the US car makers are finally waking up to the pollution/ > > > global warming threat. > > > > It most likely will take the Chinese govt another 20 to have something > > > even close to the same understanding.... > > > > But hell, they can sure put on a good Olympics! > > > > On Jan 24, 1:43 pm, "[email protected]" <[email protected]> wrote: > > > > > Great ! > > > > > A pity it has not been done years ago. US car makers would not be into > > > > trouble nowadays and they would be exporters. Probably they would not > > > > export assembled cars, but they would export green engines. > > > > > In any case, congratulations ! > > > > > It is a turn toward the right direction and it will produce fruits in > > > > years to come. > > > > > Peace and best wishes. > > > > > Xi > > > > > On 24 ene, 17:57, "Mercury.Sailor" <[email protected]> wrote: > > > > > > First 100 Days: Obama’s first climate change target > > > > > > After eight years of inaction on climate change by the federal > > > > > government, we can now look forward to the Obama administration > > > > > tackling global warming head on. With not a minute to lose, Lisa > > > > > Jackson, the soon-to-be new head of the EPA, should move quickly to > > > > > capitalize on the momentum of states that have so far been the leaders > > > > > in fighting global warming. There is no better place to start than by > > > > > establishing a national greenhouse gas emission standard for > > > > > automobiles based on California’s landmark clean car law. > > > > > >http://blogs.reuters.com/great-debate/2009/01/22/first-100-days-obama... > > > > > > My hope would be the new EPA tackling coal burning utilities and > > > > > bringing them to thier knees!- Hide quoted text - > > > > > - Show quoted text -- Hide quoted text - > > > - Show quoted text - --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "World-thread" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/world-thread?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
