http://greenleapforward.com/2008/04/22/china-car-culture-the-challenge-of-pricing-hybrids/ Tracking the emerging technological, commercial, political and social revolution that is greening China's red-hot economy. Tue, 06 Jan 2009 09:12:33 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.5.1 http://greenleapforward.com/2008/04/22/china-car-culture-the-challenge-of-pricing-hybrids/#comment-69 Small Is Beautiful: A Review of the Beijing Auto Show 2008 « The Green Leap Forward 绿跃进 Mon, 28 Apr 2008 05:53:21 +0000 http://greenleapforward.wordpress.com/?p=40#comment-69 [...] 28, 2008 by Julian After writing my post on China car culture, I just had to check out the Beijing Auto Show show for myself.   Green was the theme, and nearly [...] [...] 28, 2008 by Julian After writing my post on China car culture, I just had to check out the Beijing Auto Show show for myself.   Green was the theme, and nearly [...]

]]> http://greenleapforward.com/2008/04/22/china-car-culture-the-challenge-of-pricing-hybrids/#comment-70 Charlie Wed, 23 Apr 2008 10:57:32 +0000 http://greenleapforward.wordpress.com/?p=40#comment-70 Julian: Nice post! Every city in China should adopt Shanghai's license tag auction system (it is insane that Beijing has not done so, instead it apparently thinks it can convince people not to buy cars by subsidizing public transportation--good luck!), and give discounts for hybrid owners. China should also let gasoline prices for private automobiles go to market immediately. It may be hard to completely stop the car addiction, but the addicts should have to pay the full price of their habit. Julian: Nice post! Every city in China should adopt Shanghai’s license tag auction system (it is insane that Beijing has not done so, instead it apparently thinks it can convince people not to buy cars by subsidizing public transportation–good luck!), and give discounts for hybrid owners. China should also let gasoline prices for private automobiles go to market immediately. It may be hard to completely stop the car addiction, but the addicts should have to pay the full price of their habit.

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