The United States Environmental Protection Agency reports, "A typical passenger vehicle emits about 4.6 metric tons of carbon dioxide per year."

There are an estimated 294 million cars on the road in China. That equates to 1,352 million metric tons of carbon dioxide per year. By comparison, Australias TOTAL (transport, power generation, farming, etc) carbon dioxide emissions are 499 million metric tons per year.

An estimated 21 million new cars are added to Chinas road each year.

This week, the Chinese government announced that the sales tax on new cars will be halved in order to stimulate sales and, thereby, keep the factories busy and keep people in work.

Currently, the US has 276 million cars for its population of 329 million people which equates to .84 cars per person.

Australia has 20 million cars for its population of 26 million people which equates to .77 cars per person.

China has 294 million cars for its population of 1,400 million people which equates to .21 cars per person.

If China manages to somehow limit its car ownership ratio to, say, .42 cars per person, that would add an ADDITIONAL 1,352 million metric tons of carbon dioxide per year to our atmosphere. Throw in the countrys expected huge increase in coal-fired power generation and you can say that the world is decidely f*cked when it comes to increased (and accelerated) climate change.

But wait! Theres more!  

India has an estimated 295 million cars on the road and is adding an estimated 22 million additional cars per year. Indias population is 1,380 million. . . . . . . . . . . .

The obvious solution is for the developed world to reduce its car ownership to .21 cars per person. Simple, really. Or do you expect that the poorer peoples of the world should continue to subsidise the lifestyles of the wealthy nations?

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I just occurred to me that a nation with 1 car per driver would produce no less pollution than a nation with 2 cars per driver.

A family with one car. Shopping, soccer, netball, ballet, tuition, school runs. The problem is children!

Mein Re (China Halves New Car Sales Tax)
I would like to send your write up to a Climate Change/Greenie relative, (with your permission) did you get the info from a factual source ( I have checked with snopes and nothing came up).

Would not like her to point out to me that the figures were made up.

Thanks

Peter

dorian wrote:

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The obvious solution is for the developed world to reduce its car ownership to .21 cars per person. Simple, really. Or do you expect that the poorer peoples of the world should continue to subsidise the lifestyles of the wealthy nations?

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I just occurred to me that a nation with 1 car per driver would produce no less pollution than a nation with 2 cars per driver.

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 Nope.

The obvious solution is to drastically reduce the worlds population.  

oldbloke wrote:

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dorian wrote:

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The obvious solution is for the developed world to reduce its car ownership to .21 cars per person. Simple, really. Or do you expect that the poorer peoples of the world should continue to subsidise the lifestyles of the wealthy nations?

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I just occurred to me that a nation with 1 car per driver would produce no less pollution than a nation with 2 cars per driver.

-- Edited by dorian on Wednesday 25th of May 2022 06:03:13 AM

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 Nope.

The obvious solution is to drastically reduce the worlds population.  

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 I thought that's why the politicians let COVID-19 run riot. 

oldbloke wrote:

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If I were running the show I would ban all men under 65 from having sex for the next 15 years. ;)

That would fix the problem. ;)

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 Thats going to increase the workload of the over 65s quite a lot!!

Collo.

Collo wrote:

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oldbloke wrote:

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If I were running the show I would ban all men under 65 from having sex for the next 15 years. ;)

That would fix the problem. ;)

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 Thats going to increase the workload of the over 65s quite a lot!!

Collo.

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 Yep, that's the idea, we need the additional exercise.  ;)

With all the embargo's they have placed on our exports, why are we still allowing them to import

their cars and caravans. It's beyond me. I would not purchase anything from them I can get elsewhere.

Dick.