9/13 Volkswagon sold more cars in China than in Germany
http://www.nytimes.com/2003/09/12/business/worldbusiness/12cars.html
\_ old news. China already passed Germany as 3rd largest auto
market in the world. Mind you, that when that stat was taken,
China has not open up market for auto-finance yet. I am a
Chinese, and I am deeply concerned with the way this is going.
Most of China's city is not equipped for millions of cars, not
to mention environment impact.
\_ China has always been deeply concerned about the environment.
\_ Yeah that's why they're building the 3 gorges river dam and
have been destroying their own rice paddies to the north of
Beijing for 20+ years with unsound farming methods. The real
concern is we're down wind. If they put enough shit in the
air from cars and heavy industry, it's going to blow right
over the pacific and settle in the pacific northwest and
parts of northern CA. (The part of CA where Berkeley is for
those light on geography skills).
\_ hmm, ever heard of the Hoover dam?
\_ hopefully some smart guy in the gwbush admin has
realized this and is cooking up some great free
market scheme to deal with this problem, but
i really doubt it
\_ Um. GWBush admin.... saving CA... yeah, right. They'll
probably encourage China to drop emissions controls.
\_ I think they'll tell China about how they can
fix the environment by emitting deplted uranium.
\_ Building? It's completed. Humans have been building dams
since 4000BC. Last time I checked the Colorado is still
dammed. Maybe you prefer that those Chinese provinces
(several hundred million people) continue to burn coal
instead?
\_ It's not fully operational. They're still flooding out
the upriver areas, dislocating 10 million people and
wiping out big chunk of their own history. And then
when the fault line they built it on goes, a few hundred
gazillion tons of water is going to wash out everything
down river to the ocean wiping out another few hundred
million people, but hey, as long as they don't burn coal
it's ok, right? If you knew *anything* about this
project you wouldn't be so flip about it like it's yet
another random dam. It isn't and you'd know that if
you knew anything, but you don't. I notice you're also
completely ignoreant of the wide spread devastation
they're inflicting on their own food basket in the north.
\_ You are the one who mentioned "the real concern is
we're down wind". Well, I can see how burning coal
would cause problem down wind, but not Yangtze
flooding. In any case, now every two years,
millions of people get dislocated WITHOUT damming
due to flooding of the Yangtze.
\_ Maybe, but our environmentalism is more important
than Chinese flood dislocation. They've been
flooded for thousands of years, and they should
be used to it by now.
\_ Their coal burning isn't an issue. A few hundred
million cars and the heavy industry required to
make, maintain, and replace them is. The 3 gorges
project is one example of how the environment is
not a concern there in any way, shape, or form.
The fact that they're destroying their own food
producing areas in the north is more than just bad
farm science, it's sheer insanity. I wonder what
the next Five Year Plan will be.
\_ You are a Chinese, but are you from China?
\_ what differences does it make? -- heart in the motherland
\_ The person mentioned that he is "a Chinese". What
differences does that make? -- heart for the humankind
\_ Does VW manufacture cars in China now?
\_not "now." VW has been in China for almost a decade, if not
more.
\_ Go to Shanghai, the joint venture between VW and the local
manufacturer (forget their name), have the largets market
share in China currently. I think their main $$$ maker is
the Santana.
\_ Good thing China is in Kyoto - oh wait...
\_ look at who is talking... the biggest pollutor in the damn
world. |
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