China to take 6 million older vehicles off roads

[unhappycamper]

http://www.adn.com/2014/05/26/3487658/china-to-take-5-million-older.html?sp=/99/171/



In this photo taken Monday, April 25, 2011, cars clog a main thoroughfare in Beijing, China. China's government plans to take 5 million older, polluting vehicles off the road this year in an effort to revive stalled progress toward cleaning up smog-choked cities. The plan also calls for filling stations in Beijing, Shanghai and other major urban areas to switch to selling only the cleanest grades of gasoline and diesel, according to a Cabinet statement issued Monday, May 26, 2014.

China to take 6 million older vehicles off roads
By JOE McDONALD
AP Business Writer
May 26, 2014 Updated 9 minutes ago

BEIJING — China's government plans to take 6 million older, polluting vehicles off the road this year in an effort to revive stalled progress toward cleaning up smog-choked cities.

The plan also calls for filling stations in Beijing, Shanghai and other major cities to switch to selling only the cleanest grades of gasoline and diesel, according to a Cabinet statement issued Monday.

The order comes after China failed to meet official pollution-reduction goals for 2011-2013, the statement said. It said vehicles registered before 2005 that fail to meet cleaner emissions standards will be "phased out," though it did not say how.

It called the country's environmental situation "extremely grim."

[hatrack]

1. Great - so in a country whose people buy 20 million cars per year now . . .

If we assume that the new cars which will replace older polluting models are at least three times as clean, in a year China will have succeeded in keeping up with the Red Queen.

Perhaps then they can treat themselves to a biscuit.



http://www.businessinsider.com/china-car-market-up-14-percent-20-million-sales-2014-1

[defacto7]

2. Good!

Maybe they will hand out free bicycles to those who loose their cars in such a way.

... or maybe 2 stroke motor scooters. (cough cough)

Seriously, there are a lot of cars and trucks on our roads that I would like to see disappear for the same reason. It would be about as difficult to accomplish as gun control.