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Goodbye, Flying Pigeon
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn...004Mar7_3.html
The PRC has now embraced the automobile culture. The "true bastion of iron" will soon no longer be the masses, but a fuel-gulper SUV. This was to be predicted, of course. -Luigi |
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Goodbye, Flying Pigeon
On Mon, 08 Mar 2004 12:36:48 -0500, Luigi de Guzman
wrote: http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn...004Mar7_3.html The PRC has now embraced the automobile culture. The "true bastion of iron" will soon no longer be the masses, but a fuel-gulper SUV. This was to be predicted, of course. Don't be glum, chum. Remember that almost everything you buy nowadays is made in China. Remember also that they hold about half of this country's T-bills. In a free global marketplace, they will be able to outbid US oil companies for petroleum. Is that a bad thing? At worst, the US will become a nation of bicycles and rickshaws in teeming cities, something that shouldn't sadden you. Meanwhile, the Chinese will inherit the health problems that go along with the SUV culture you decry and they will become their own worst enemies. At best, American ingenuity will come up with a substitute for fossil energy utilizing renewable resources independent of the snake-pit that the Middle East will become when we cut and run after kerry's election. Using this new energy source, the US will remain a superpower. Either way, it looks like you win. |
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Goodbye, Flying Pigeon
Luigi de Guzman wrote:
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn...004Mar7_3.html The PRC has now embraced the automobile culture. I was doing okay until I got to here. === "It gave me the feeling that my husband really loves me," she says, looking ahead to the day she can park it in the driveway in front of her newly renovated home, === Ick. I'm sure that would play well in any modern car commercial. The "true bastion of iron" will soon no longer be the masses, but a fuel-gulper SUV. Just because they are having plenty of time to see us make (what you and I consider) really dumb mistakes. Doesn't mean that they'll learn from us and not do truly bone-headed things exactly like us. This was to be predicted, of course. Excuse me while I go rinse my mouth out. Something has left a bad taste in it. -- Dane Jackson - z u v e m b i @ u n i x b i g o t s . o r g "One should respect public opinion insofar as is necessary to avoid starvation and keep out of prison, but anything that goes beyond this is voluntary submission to an unnecesssary tyranny." -Bertrand Russell |
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