Any way you look at China, it's an energy, economic and environmental juggernaut.
Some examples:
— The world's largest oil consumer after the United States, China's oil imports rose 34 percent this year. Nearly 40 percent of all oil is imported and that could increase to half by 2007. By 2020, China is expected to become the world's largest oil consumer.
---Transportation is the fastest-growing sector in terms of energy use: It now consumes 10 percent of the nation's energy and is projected to consume one-third by 2050.
— China is the third-largest carmaking country in the world.
— Acid rain falls on more than 250 cities, causing direct annual economic losses of $13 billion, equal to nearly 3 percent of the country’s gross domestic product. Sulfur emissions from cars and coal were the chief causes.
— 178,000 premature deaths and 346,000 hospitalizations are attributed to air pollution each year.
Beijing alone has 2.3 million vehicles, and that figure grows by 1,000 each day.
This fast track to a car culture has had enormous costs — in terms of soaring energy use and pollution
A plan announced in November calls for replacing 38 million tons of oil by 2010 with cleaner-burning natural gas, ethanol and liquefied coal.
Excerpts from an MSNBC article...URL: http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/6290180/
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