facts and figures can be used to prove anything.
Especially things that are true
For one China needs to start killing ppl off to balance their budget.
Heh. First, that's a terribly politically incorrect thing to say. Second, I'm not sure I see how killing off people would improve the bottom line. They've got a billion people, figure that maybe 30% of them are in the work force. And they work for practically nothing. At least compared with America and Europe. True, they are a communist (and therefore socialist) state, so they're expected to provide basic goods and services to their population for free (actually I'm guessing, I have no idea how the internal Chinese economy works. Or even how communism really works when you get down to the level of families. Do they have to pay rent? Or are families just assigned housing based on their needs?), but I think the average worker produces more than they cost (the Chinese economy is net exporting, IIRC), which means they have an inflow of cash (probably lots of American Dollars), which means, from a strictly fiscal point of view, more people = more money.
Also I never trust any fact or figure presented by the Chinese GOvernment as honest by any means.
Oil imports are public record from the oil companies, I don't think it's something they could hide if they wanted to, since the oil has to come from somewhere, and the place it comes from knows how much it sent.
Also in Europe you have the best mass transit possible, you can take a train if need be for very cheap, in the states its cheaper to drive even with crappier gas prices than before. They cut all social funding since McCarthy got in and still have, damn Communists.
It's not cheaper to drive, it's just that American public transit is terrible. If you've ever been on a Grey hound bus, you know they're dead cheap, but you get what you pay for. It actually has nothing to do with McCarthy or communists or anything like that (as you seem to imply). It was in the 30s or 40s I believe, the tire, automobile, and oil companies got together and bought up all the mass transits in as many large cities as they could. (Trains and trollies). They then purposely ran them with terrible management so they'd lose money. Once they were unprofitable, they would sell off the assets and clsoe down the company. In its place they'd sell cities buses (which use tires and car engines and gas) to use instead, and promote larger roads and freeways and the like, to boost the utility of cars. In a matter of a decade or so they'd changed America from a world leader in public transit to a mostly car and bus country.
Oh, and this isn't some crazy crack pot theory, it's pretty well documented and the car companies admitted to it, and got slapped with a minor fine.
wiki. (Unless of course you don't trust wikipedia as a reputable source. You're more than welcome to go look it up yourself in that case).
