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Beijing Olympics and $4 per gallon gas
Just in case you hadn't heard, the Summer Olympic Games will be held in Beijing this year. One of the related topics of discussion is the exceptionally poor air quality in the city and other parts of industrialized China. How that will affect athletes is an area of concern, and local officials are planning on implementing draconian restrictions on local industrial polluters and drivers as an effort to clean things up before the games start.
I was listening to a discussion of this yesterday on my way to work on NPR, and the reporter said that Beijing has a problem in that as the society becomes more affluent, more people want cars. In that city alone, 1000 new vehicles take to the streets every day. One may assume a total many times that across the entire country.
Which brings me to the second point. All those cars are competing for the same world oil supply that we are in North America. Is gas going to get any cheaper? Short of a major economic downturn, I doubt it.
Beijing Olympics and $4 per gallon gas
March 12, 2008
Just in case you hadn't heard, the Summer Olympic Games will be held in Beijing this year. One of the related topics of discussion is the exceptionally poor air quality in the city and other parts of industrialized China. How that will affect athletes is an area of concern, and local officials are planning on implementing draconian restrictions on local industrial polluters and drivers as an effort to clean things up before the games start.I was listening to a discussion of this yesterday on my way to work on NPR, and the reporter said that Beijing has a problem in that as the society becomes more affluent, more people want cars. In that city alone, 1000 new vehicles take to the streets every day. One may assume a total many times that across the entire country.
Which brings me to the second point. All those cars are competing for the same world oil supply that we are in North America. Is gas going to get any cheaper? Short of a major economic downturn, I doubt it.
Posted by Peter Welander on March 12, 2008 | Comments (0)
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