From: mil-veh@ziptar.com
Date: Sat May 15 2004 - 07:49:27 PDT
HEY!!! that was me what said the China bit :-P
--Ziptar
-----Original Message-----
From: Convoy Magazine [mailto:convoymagazine@yahoo.com]
Sent: Saturday, May 15, 2004 9:53 AM
To: mil-veh@ziptar.com; Military Vehicles Mailing List
Subject: Re: [MV] Fuel price and China
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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