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Posted Fri Dec 24 2010: from
BBC:
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New cars in Beijing cut by two-thirds to battle traffic http://apocadocs.com/s.pl?1293203523
New rules have taken effect in China that restrict car purchases in an effort to combat serious traffic problems in the capital, Beijing.
City authorities will allow only 240,000 vehicles to be registered for 2011 - one-third of this year's total.
Car buyers have been swamping dealers in anticipation of the new rules, which will still leave about five million cars on the road in the capital.
Traffic and air pollution in Beijing is among the worst in the world.... Yang Ailun of Greenpeace China told the BBC that the restrictions had come far too late...
"Everything in China now happens so quickly, and the government always fails to anticipate what's coming, and as a result normally policies are only introduced when things are already out of control."
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Thank goodness 'Mericans are free to ruin the planet without interference.
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I adore that quote from the Greenpeace dude. He's nailed the whole friggin' world: Everything is happening too fast, and so, things are out of control.
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