Coal producers in China are largely publicly-owned SOE’s. While profit-seeking enterprises, they’re still outside of the private sector.
If the elites in government or industry have a vested interest in slowing the movement away from coal, they haven’t demonstrated it. Their interests lie in stemming air pollution, which has become a major public issue, and becoming the leading producer and exporter of the new energy technologies. The turn to wind solar is not a new development, and while coal is still the main source of energy, it’s share of consumption has been steadily falling.
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> On Wed, Sep 13, 2017 at 8:38 AM, Jean-Christophe Helary <brandelune at gmail.com> wrote:
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> > On Sep 13, 2017, at 21:27, Michael Meeropol <mameerop at gmail.com> wrote:
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> > The Chinese people do not make decisions on national economic policy -- an elite does that --- understanding a problem is not the same as having the power to deal with it when it steps on powerful toes ...
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> Oops, sorry for the poor wording. I meant the "Chinese elite" of course. Since it is the elite that is pushing for electric cars and clean energy, not the "people".
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> So, back to the point, why do you think that the elite understands that pollution is a problem when it comes to cars and is aggressively pushing toward less emissions there, but not when it comes to power plants?
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> Jean-Christophe
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