
A little article in this week's Wall Street Journal caught my eye: General Motors auto sales in China this year might surpass those of the company's sales in the United States.
GM's US sales in first half 2009 were 954,356 units, compared to 814,442 units in China. In all of 2008 GM sold 1.1 million vehicles in China, so it looks like they are on pace to far exceed that number with 20% growth there forecast.
Note that the world is on pace to doubling the number of cars on the road by 2020, when 2 billion cars and trucks will grace our planet's roadways.
These new figures demonstrate that even with more fuel-efficient cars, the supply of oil of other natural resources will be under demand and environmental pressures that far exceed our ability to supply and use gasoline in way that our economy and global climate can tolerate.



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