Chinese tiger has nothing in tank

[LiberalArkie]

<http://www.theaustralian.news.com.au/story/0,25197,22832180-25837,00.html>

CHINA is running out of fuel. Police are guarding petrol stations in several inland provinces to prevent fights, as shortages of petrol and diesel are causing huge queues of trucks, buses and cars.

In Kunming, capital of the southwestern province of Yunnan, 1000 trucks are stranded.

A truck driver named Li told the Chuncheng Evening News he had been stranded at the Stone Tiger Gate petrol station for three days after searching for fuel in other places, but failing. He said his delivery date was way overdue.

Another driver, at Geiju city, said a job that would have taken one day in the past, now took three: one on the road, two queuing for fuel.

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[northernsoul]

1. This is significant

Good find!

[Fovea]

2. And what happened when the oil started getting scarce in Japan

in the early 40s?

They invaded the folks they knew were shutting off the spigot.
How could China, without a significant invasion ability
affect the US oil hegemony?

I can think of three ways just sitting here.

Economic warfare.
Proxy War
Global Thermonuclear Warfare.

And in none of them, do we look like a winner at the end.

[GreenPartyVoter]

3. I thought this was going to be an animal cruelty post. Poor thirsty tiger!

[driver8]

4. Quick -- let's invade China!!

Oops...don't want to give them any ideas!!

[NewJeffCT]

5. That would work really well

I think they have some cities there that have populations approaching that of all of Iraq... I think Chongqing has like 31 million.

[conscious evolution]

6. They could field an army

larger than the entire US's population.