{"id":5835,"date":"2010-10-11T10:52:10","date_gmt":"2010-10-11T14:52:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/henrypayne.com\/?p=5835"},"modified":"2010-10-12T10:53:29","modified_gmt":"2010-10-12T14:53:29","slug":"co2-reductions-developing-world-auto-sales-explode-national-review-10-11-10","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/henrypayne.com\/index.php\/2010\/10\/co2-reductions-developing-world-auto-sales-explode-national-review-10-11-10","title":{"rendered":"CO2 Reductions? Developing-world Auto Sales Explode (National Review 10.11.10)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"margin-top: 0in; line-height: 14.25pt;\"><span style=\"font-size: 10.0pt; color: black;\">While Obama\u2019s EPA continues to reduce consumer choice and strangle automakers with a proposed 62 mpg mandate by 2025 in the name of fighting the mirage of global warming, vehicle growth in the developing world continues to explode\u00a0\u2013 more than negating any CO2 reductions claimed by the EPA and its new rule.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"line-height: 14.25pt;\"><span style=\"font-size: 10.0pt; color: black;\">China has already outstripped U.S. auto sales (about 11 million annually) on its way to an estimated 30 million by 2025. And this week brought news<span> <\/span><span><span id=\"IL_AD2\" style=\"background-origin: initial !important; background-clip: initial !important; cursor: pointer !important; background-repeat: repeat !important; background-position-x: 0%; background-position-y: 50%; background-attachment: scroll; float: none;\">that the<\/span><\/span><span> <\/span><span><span id=\"IL_AD1\" style=\"background-origin: initial !important; background-clip: initial !important; cursor: pointer !important; background-repeat: repeat !important; background-position-x: 0%; background-position-y: 50%; background-attachment: scroll; float: none;\">Philippines<\/span><\/span><span> <\/span>saw September sales volumes rise 28 percent \u201cto new record highs\u201d reports just-auto.com. These aren\u2019t expensive electric chariots, but affordable, gas combustion-engine cars.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"line-height: 14.25pt;\"><span style=\"font-size: 10.0pt; color: black;\">While a small island nation, the<span> <\/span>Philippines<span> <\/span>is a typical example of a developing world that shares none of Washington Democrats\u2019 guilt for growth and will defy any Kyoto-like treaties that limit CO2 emissions.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>While Obama\u2019s EPA continues to reduce consumer choice and strangle automakers with a proposed 62 mpg mandate by 2025 in the name of fighting the mirage of global warming, vehicle growth in the developing world continues to explode\u00a0\u2013 more than negating any CO2 reductions claimed by the EPA and its new rule. China has already [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7,87],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/henrypayne.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5835"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/henrypayne.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/henrypayne.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/henrypayne.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/henrypayne.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5835"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/henrypayne.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5835\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5838,"href":"https:\/\/henrypayne.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5835\/revisions\/5838"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/henrypayne.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5835"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/henrypayne.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5835"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/henrypayne.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5835"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}