The Liberty Tree Lantern

Here is an article for you.  Chinese workers are buying SUVs and big sedans while the U.S. Congress is demanding that we use rickshaws, bicycles and walking.  The Democrats in Congress are happy that the price of gasoline is so high.  They do not have to pay for it, because we pay it for them.

Meanwhile, China is drilling for oil not far from off our Atlantic coast to harvest our domestic oil out from under us while the U.S. Congress keeps it illegal for our companies to harvest our oil off shore.

China’s Cars, Accelerating A Global Demand for Fuel
By Ariana Eunjung Cha
Washington Post Foreign Service
Monday, July 28, 2008; A01

SONGJIANG, China — Nodding his head to the disco music blaring out of his car’s nine speakers, Zhang Linsen swings the shiny, black Hummer H2 out of his company’s gates and on to the spacious four-lane road.

Running a hand over his closely shaved head, Zhang scans the expanse of high-end suburban offices and villas that a decade ago was just another patch of farmland outside of Shanghai. To his left is a royal blue sedan with a couple and a baby, in front of him a lone young woman being chauffeured in a van.

“In China, size matters,” says Zhang, the 44-year-old founder of a media and graphic design company. “People want to have a car that shows off their status in society. No one wants to buy small.”

Zhang grasps the wheels of his Hummer, called “hanma” or “fierce horse” in Chinese, and hits the accelerator.

Car ownership in China is exploding, and it’s not only cars but also sport-utility vehicles, pickup trucks and other gas-guzzling rides. Elsewhere in the world, the popularity of these vehicles has tumbled as the cost of oil has soared. But in China, the number of SUVs sold rose 43 percent in May compared with the previous year, and full-size sedans were up 15 percent. Indeed, China’s demand for gas is much of the reason for the dramatic run-up in global oil prices.

To read more as to how nice the Chinese have it and how wealthy they are getting because of freedom / capitalism in business there read: http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/07/27/AR2008072701911_pf.html

When will we Americans demand the same “business” environment, rights and resulting prosperity as the Chinese worker has?  When are We The People going to demand that we be able to harvest as much as a TRILLION barrels of crude, according to some reports, from our own domestically available sources?  We all must remember, it is all up to us individually to decide to do something about this.  The U.S. Congress is not going to do us any favors.

The Liberty Tree Lantern believes that as soon as China feels that they have enough wealth, they will use the prosperity to resolve pollution problems, but with in the realm of reality and common sense, not insanity or baloney of “Global Warming” or “Climate Change” by mankind which we have provided evidence in other posts simply does not exist.