Beijing petrol stations to close (BBC)

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China is closing 10% of Beijing's petrol stations to improve air quality ahead of the Olympics in August.

By the end of May, 144 will shut because they are not expected to meet higher environmental standards, according to state media.

The remainder are to be fitted with devices to reduce the level of fumes which escape when vehicles fill up.

It is part of a big drive to clean up the city - one of the world's most polluted - as August approaches.

Olympic concerns

More than 1,000 filling stations in the city will have new nozzles installed at the pumps to collect the fumes. The vapours will then be stored in tanks for re-use.
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more: http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/asia-pacific/7246955.stm

Don't worry, people, it's only until our honored guests leave -- then business as usual!

[phantom power]

1. Potempkin Olympics

[eppur_se_muova]

2. Nicely turned phrase. nt

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[tom_paine]

3. China and Amerika are ruled by the same form of government, essentially.

Strip away the window-dressing and Amerika, Russia, and China are now run by the same people for the same people...themselves.

Can there be any doubt that our Empire would do the same kind of bullshit, and JUST as shamelessly, nowadays?

No doubt whatsoever. I don't begrudge the Chinese their Potemkin Bushie Lies, because they do not begrudge us ours.