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JF Mezei <jfmezei@teksavvy.com> wrote:

>leslie wrote:
>> General Motors' CIO states that 60% of their growth will come from
>> underdeveloped countries such as India and Communist China:
>
>Which is why car makers are scrambling to invest in China. Strategically
>however, this is a VERY BAD move. Yes, the car maker may increase profit. But
>the higher demand for cars in China will also result in higher demand for oil.
>And when you have a few billion people wanting more oil, it will put a lot of
>strain on the oil supply. So americans will have to pay more at the pump to
>drive their beloved single occupant SUVs.
>
>And when a billion people start burning oil, global warming will suddently
>become an emergency and then all those countries who refused to acknowledge
>the problem will have to pay the big bucks to not only start to adopt Kyoto
>rules, but implement them at a far greater speed (and thus extreme cost to the
>economy in short term) than those economies who adopted Kyoto and proceeded at
>slower speed over long period with less impact on economy.
>
>If americans want to continue to drive SUVs to the supermarket, they should
>not be helping China become a car based society.

OMG!!!  All those Americans driving their single occupancy SUVs to the
supermarket are out to get JF!!!

Oh the humanity!!!