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  • From: "Lynda" <lurine AT softcom.net>
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  • Subject: Re: [Homestead] How would YOU spend 3 trillion dollars?
  • Date: Sat, 19 Apr 2008 19:14:32 -0800

We shipped hardly any cars to China prior to 2002. At that time the import tariff on cars was 80%. When China agreed to terms with the WTO, they dropped the tariff by increments with the last drop (2006) to 25%. GM's Buick sold more cars in China than they sold in the U.S. Audi sold 100,000 there last year which is more than they sold in the U.S.

If would be nice if they did figure out a way to run them on something else. That is the same hope the guy has that built the eco village for the Chinese government. He hopes that having a total solar village will encourage the Chinese to come up with a way to make solar affordable to the average person.

Lynda
----- Original Message ----- From: "Marie McHarry" <mmcharry AT gmail.com>


Mostly, they're making their own. Their import tariffs are extremely
high for cars _and_ auto parts (25 percent, the last number I can
find). We don't have a major market there (but, yes, whatever they're
driving is burning gas, so that's another reason they need oil).

I wouldn't be surprised if those wiley Chinese figured out how to run
cars on something besides petrol and sold the technology back to us.
Of course, we might not be able to buy it.

If we had any smarts, we'd be developing alterrnative energy sources
-- but if we had brains, we'd be insulating our houses too -- and
schlepping the new technology on the world market. As it is, we're
going to be buying it from everyone else. Is that because the best
brains are going into investment banking?





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