1 'world's most carefully controlled population'? Maybe that is what we have been told by our 'government controlled press'? Obviously if these people chose to drive in spite of government orders they are not as tightly controlled as we have been led to believe. I find it interesting how our press and governments decry the control by government in other countries but move as fast as they can to emulate those actions themselves. Maybe it is time for a re-think of all the propaganda we have been fed over the years? BTW--did you catch the news clip with Mattel stating that not all the problems with the toys are the fault of China--it was a 'design flaw' with Mattel! I guess Mattel would rather shoulder some of the blame rather than lose it's access to slave labour? I wonder if the people of china will ever follow the Kyoto scam the way the sheep of the West are? Will they be mandated to use only poisonous lightbulbs by 2012? Will they follow that dictate. Obviously the people of China have more courage and smarts than we do.

2 Right on George! There isn't a "federalista" skank in our centralist political party cartels that didn't wish they had the unaccountable arbitrary powers of the communist commissariats...Kyoto is testament to that...a flimsy excuse using junk science to scare us into allowing the state deeper control of our lives and property....Chinese have suffered for generations under this crap and now they have a small taste of civil freedom are saying "Phuc yu" to political strong men and buraucratic control freaks....we should as well. I agree with you about Mattel...it was pathetic watching the CEO belly crawl to a commie autocrat just so he didn't get cut off from his wind fall profiteering on slave labor and free polluting in China. For that alone patriots in the free nations should have a Mattel embargo.

3 Chinese people are nationalists but they are as unimpressed by their government as westerners are. They just don't like it when foreigners attack China or Chinese government policies.

4 The buses in any Chinese city are always crammed to over capacity, so why would people try to use them and not be able to get on them. Cities would need to at least triple the number of busses on the road which with the extra diesel fumes would defeat the object. Also it is no different to Canada, the buses do not always go where you want to go. It should be noted that the Guangzhou local government refused to take part in this car-free day for those reasons saying it was impractical. Besides the Mattel fiasco another US company has admitted it is not the fault of China with respect to the manufacture of a make of cot/crib which if assembled wrongly can kill babies, but is the fault of a design engineer, someone who has not heard of MurphyÂ’s law. No matter what people think of these admissions they have certainly destroyed western credibility when it comes to pointing the finger at the Chinese, now they are just pointing back. The Chinese have been using those light bulbs George (not mandated) longer than Kyoto because electricity is very expensive and they are cheap to use.

5 That is my point about those lightbulbs--they ARE mandated in Canada starting in 2012! Democracy right down to the lightbulbs? Isn't it interesting though--the fingerpointing at China does not mention that most of these lightbulbs are made in China. To follow the mandated use of these lightbulbs to it's logical conclusion, it is safe to use lightbulbs from China but nothing else? Anything for Kyoto?