From: Convoy Magazine (convoymagazine@yahoo.com)
Date: Sat May 15 2004 - 06:52:50 PDT
I think Ryan has it right ( in message at bottom)
China will be the next superpower. We are already
foolishly sending far too much of our manufacturing
capability there, where they will soon become a centre
of R&D capacity as the west slowly loses it.
As their economy picks up, someone elses will decline,
ie "the west" and with China's added economic power
comes more truck and rail and air traffic (fuel
consumption) wealth to buy things like tens of
thousands of new cars, with a further huge increase in
fuel consumption..meaning of course our prices go up
Jane's has already reported many times that china is
also very quickly modernizing its military capabilty
and is rapidly closing both the technology and numbers
gap with the US.
Again it is important to support you own economy and
fellow workers. So what if it costs a couple of
dollars more. I'll buy domestic to keep my neighbour
working, and he'll buy domestic to keep me working.
0;02cents
Marc
> More than OPEC, I have heard that a shortage of
> Refineries in the U.S. and
> that China is sucking up natural resources like a
> gigantic Hoover. China is
> the reason why scrap steel prices are the highest
> they have been in 10
> years. My wife is a realtor and a contractor she
> sells for tells her all his
> new construction is delayed due to a concrete and
> steel shortage. He
> mentioned China as the reason why was well.
>
--- mil-veh@ziptar.com wrote:
>
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Ryan Gill [mailto:rmgill@mindspring.com]
> Sent: Friday, May 14, 2004 5:58 PM
> To: Military Vehicles Mailing List
> Subject: Re: [MV] Fuel price web site from DOE - now
> a rant on high fuel
> prices
>
> At 4:38 PM -0500 5/14/04, David Cole wrote:
> > If you really want to bitch, talk to OPEC. They're
> the ones that Price
> Fix.
>
> More than OPEC, I have heard that a shortage of
> Refineries in the U.S. and
> that China is sucking up natural resources like a
> gigantic Hoover. China is
> the reason why scrap steel prices are the highest
> they have been in 10
> years. My wife is a realtor and a contractor she
> sells for tells her all his
> new construction is delayed due to a concrete and
> steel shortage. He
> mentioned China as the reason why was well.
>
>
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