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City plans to phase out dirty old clunkers http://apocadocs.com/s.pl?1346194615
SHANGHAI will gradually limit and finally eliminate use of heavily polluting vehicles starting next month to reduce air contaminants.
The owners will get subsidies from the government...
The vehicles, mostly older models that do not meet national emission requirements, are easily identifiable by a yellow sticker on the window.
There are 230,000 such vehicles registered in Shanghai, about 12 percent of total vehicles with local plates, according to environmental protection authorities.
But they contribute more than half of all vehicle emissions, said officials. The vehicles usually emit five to 10 times more than others....
The city is expected to get rid of 200,000 high-pollution vehicles by the end of 2015.
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You might say these clunkers are about to be Shanghaied.
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