To: Cogito Ergo Sum who wrote (98185 ) 1/23/2013 6:39:20 AM From: TobagoJack Read Replies (2) | Respond to of 217986 good news ... as we were discussing social imperatives result in deliberated and politically palatable macro moves more needed infrastructure spend on way, years and years of it, and given team usa insists on energy independence and japan being encouraged by its leadership to die faster, the canadian natural gas has but one way to go, and given that the germans and the french choose to be belligerent with mother russia, the russian gas has another way to go - everything works out well enoughbloomberg.com immediately after another batch of 'money' is materialized to dematerialize some savings coming right up should be legislations re ships / fuels and such, and if ships, then would apply to ALL ships needing to dock in china ports, and if ships must be scrapped and replaced w/ new ships, more spending, but spending in china, from ALL around the world, and financed by banks from all around the planet saving the planet :0) and big planet recommendation: mineralize savingsBeijing to Scrap Old Cars and Swap Coal-Burners in Clean Air Bid Beijing’s acting mayor said the city will take 180,000 old vehicles off the road and replace coal- burning heaters in 44,000 homes in a bid to cut air pollutants by 2 percent this year. The capital will also promote clean-energy vehicles among government departments, the public, street cleaners and trash collectors, the Xinhua News Agency reported yesterday, citing top city official Wang Anshun. He spoke at the opening of the municipality’s legislative session. Enlarge image Vehicles travel at a crossing in smog in Beijing, China, 18 January 2013. Photograph: Imaginechina via AP Images The city had ordered government vehicles off the roads as part of an emergency response to record pollution that hit the city earlier this month. At 4 a.m. today, a sensor at the U.S. Embassy in Beijing showed that levels of PM2.5, the fine airborne particulates that pose the greatest health risks, had risen to 441. The World Health Organization recommends 24-hour exposure to PM2.5 levels no higher than 25. The official Beijing government reading along a road near Tiananmen Square was 258 at 4 a.m., which it rates as “heavily polluted,” according to a city government Website. Beijing also plans to reduce coal consumption by 1.4 million tonnes and emissions of volatile organic compounds by 8,000 tonnes, as well as closing some 450 heavily polluting plants, the Xinhua report added, citing municipal authorities it didn’t identify. To contact Bloomberg News staff for this story: Daryl Loo in Beijing at dloo7@bloomberg.net To contact the editors responsible for this story: Jason Gale at j.gale@bloomberg.net ; Peter Hirschberg at phirschberg@bloomberg.net