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Wolfman · 21st July 2008, 11:27 PM

Originally Posted by Puppycow

I sense a business opportunity for the person who can invent a false digit for the license plate.

How about raising the price of gas instead? Isn't it subsidized in China?

I've heard from some in California that the infamous and often clogged California Freeways have become more drivable with these higher gas prices.

Licence plate numbers are too arbitrary. What if you need to use your car on the wrong day?

This is intended as a purely local and temporary measure, only within Beijing, and only during the Olympics. Raising gas prices would be too problematic for that kind of strategy (it would affect people outside of Beijing). The license plate strategy, while not perfect, does the job as a temporary measure.

21st July 2008, 11:27 PM	#20
Wolfman Chief Solipsistic Autosycophant Join Date: Jan 2007 Location: Vancouver, Canada Posts: 13,415	Originally Posted by Puppycow I sense a business opportunity for the person who can invent a false digit for the license plate. How about raising the price of gas instead? Isn't it subsidized in China? I've heard from some in California that the infamous and often clogged California Freeways have become more drivable with these higher gas prices. Licence plate numbers are too arbitrary. What if you need to use your car on the wrong day? This is intended as a purely local and temporary measure, only within Beijing, and only during the Olympics. Raising gas prices would be too problematic for that kind of strategy (it would affect people outside of Beijing). The license plate strategy, while not perfect, does the job as a temporary measure.
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