Re: China Can Save The World!

On Fri, 30 Jun 2006 00:22:02 -0700, Tim Bruening
<tsbrueni@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

In a column by Stanley Crouch (New York Daily News columnist) that
appeared on page B7 of the February 11 Sacramento Bee, he wrote that
China will buy 100 to 500 million cars over the next 20 years. These
cars will choke China's air and wreck its ecosystem if they use old
fashioned gasoline. Stanley therefore urges that China require that
cars sold in China use alternative fuels (such as ethanol, methane,
natural gas, hydrogen, electricity, hybrid). This would not only save
Chinese lungs an environment, but also force the world's car makers to
shift from gasoline to clean alternative fuels, hence saving the world.
I suggest that environmentalists send messages to Chinese embassies
urging China to require that cars in China use alternate fuels.

Chinese Embassy in the U.S.:

2300 Connecticutt Avenue, NW Washington D.C 20008.; 202-328-2500;
www.china.org.cn/english/index.htm.


In a measure to reduce air pollution all motor vehicles in Guangzhou
and Beijing must scrap their cars, taxis and buses after eight years.
Thus the vehicles on the roads in these two cities look pretty new and
in good mechanical condition. Probably similar rules exist in cities
all over China.

In a related matter, to control property price inflation and the
misuse of land, no more permits for low density housing, in particular
permits for large single luxury estate-type housing, will be issued in
Beijing. Furthermore, Beijing will ban curbside parking.* The
limited parking in these high density housing developments, plus very
limited parking spots on public roads make the ownersip of private
cars a nightmare. Private car ownership will remain a self limiting
privilege for want of a space to park.

There will be plenty of traffic choked roads, but not from tens of
thousands of private vehicles commuting between non existent suburban
homes and work. In other words the idea of China's freeways choked
with cars as one would find in American cities is unlikely.

*(In Beijing the more recent commercial buildings have a driveway
separate from the road. Most businesses, except for a few small
restaurants, close at 9 pm and buses stop running by 11 pm. By then
most of the driveways including their entrances are usually
blocked.with parked cars. Often parked cars will spill over on the
wide (10 foot or more) public pedestrian walkways. The city
administration will be banning this manner of parking).
.

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