Ministry of Truth: Gas and Diesel Prices to Rise
The following censorship instructions, issued to the media by government authorities, have been...
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Ministry of Truth: New Gas Pricing Mechanism
The following censorship instructions, issued to the media by government authorities, have been leaked and distributed online. Central Propaganda Department: With regards to analysis and discussion of the new price fixing...
Beijing’s Taxicab Contention
As economic expansion benefits China’s growing middle class, long stagnant fares are leaving Beijing’s 66,000 taxi drivers discontented. The Economist reports: Beijing’s base fare of 10 yuan ($1.60) has not changed...
Zombies and Beijing's Taxi Woes
TIME’s Austin Ramzy laments the crowded rush hour taxi scene in Beijing, which he compares to “zombies after fresh human brains,” and examines a system facing a crisis of quality while resisting the...
Fuel Prices Put China’s Drivers in Reverse
The Financial Times reports on anger from truck drivers over rising fuel prices, which led to the recent strike at the Shanghai port: A strike by lorry drivers at Shanghai’s port led to pitched battles with security forces last...
Police Clamp Down On Truckers Protesting In China
Hundreds of truck drivers in Shanghai have been protesting for the past two days against rising gas prices and fees. AP reports: About 40 trucks gathered Thursday at a cargo-handling center in Baoshan district in the...
Parody: “Rising Gas Prices Gladly Welcomed by Consumers”
As China raised retail gas prices on April 7th for the second time this year, netizens mocked the NDRC (China’s National Development and Reform Commission) in this parody of an image from a CCTV broadcast. (Translated by...
Energy Troubles in China
From China’s Energy Woes, from the Far Eastern Economic Review: China has long provided fuel subsidies, which have been blamed for encouraging wasteful consumption, propping up inefficient industries, degrading the...
High-Octane Discussions – Ni Yanshuo
From Beijing Review: On May 23, gas attendant Xiao Yang was amazed by the scene he had not seen in the more than two years he has worked at a gas station in Beijing’s Chaoyang District. At about 2 o’clock in the afternoon, hundreds of vehicles lined up to top up their petrol tanks. He […]
China: Raising fuel prices, raising tempers – John Kennedy
From Global Voices Online (link): Against the backdrop of falling international crude oil prices and the revaluation of the renminbi, the National Development and Reform Committee has once again enhanced the sales price of refined oil. Prices for #93 gasoline in greater Beijing are at an historical high. The explanation from the parties concerned is […]
Urban Chinese take to carpooling – against authorities’ wishes – Tim Johnson
From Knight-Ridder: As oil prices rise, carpooling is taking off in China’s biggest cities. But unlike in the West, authorities appear none too happy about it. Web sites that serve as bulletin boards for those who want to carpool have popped up and are drawing huge amounts of interest… As crude oil prices soar worldwide, […]
Hurricane diverts oil-price anger from gas-guzzling China – Catherine Armitage
From the Australian: For the Beijing bureaucrats who control China’s petrol pump prices, the cloud cast by Hurricane Katrina over global oil markets is lined with silver. At least for now, Katrina’s disruption of the US refineries – not China’s voracious demand – is copping the blame for the global oil supply squeeze that sent […]
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