China Shuts Down Gas Stations… Whats Next?

by BWK ~ February 15, 2008

Closed For Olympics…

Beijing begins the industrial lockout to clean up ahead of the Olympics.

Now it’s the gas stations.

What next? Steel mills? Electric power stations? The BBC article says, ominously…”Many cars are expected to be ordered off the road during the games and the authorities have started closing down factories.”

Oh really? “Factories?” Hmmm…. I wonder what those factories make? If people are out of work, well that’s another problem for another time. But considering how poorly the Chinese have dealt with the people displaced by the Three Gorges Dam, I don’t have much hope for the unemployed masses locked out of the factory due to Olympics. “Let them eat rice cakes?”.

Hey, the Chinese WILL NOT let themselves be embarasses by a “bad” Olympics. They will pull out every stop to clean the place up for the world spectacle. If they have to just close the national shop for a month or two — or seven or eight — they will do it.

For more onthe story check out this link from BBC:
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/asia-pacific/7246955.stm

BWK