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Cap’n,
While I don’t dispute the figures, the guy who did the graph that has the bit about China having tripled its number of cars should have won an Oscar for biggest “spin”
China has tripled it’s number of cars in 3 years? So what, as of 2008, they had a whopping 37 cars per 1000 people versus the USA’s 808.
I don’t have hard facts to back it up, but I would be very surprised if the average US cars capacity was less than 3 liters, and even more surprised to hear if Chinas average was over 1.8