The Portrait of a Suffocating "Olympic Host" -- Trucks Power China’s
Economy, at a Suffocating Cost/Reuters

Trucks Power China’s Economy, at a Suffocating Cost

Reuters

Spewing Soot While Waiting for Fuel Trucks often spend hours idling in
fuel lines, like these in Wuhan, sometimes for as little as five gallons
of diesel, because of shortages and rationing.

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By KEITH BRADSHER

Published: December 8, 2007

GUANGZHOU, China ― Every night, columns of hulking blue and red freight
trucks invade China’s major cities with a reverberating roar of engines
and dark clouds of diesel exhaust so thick it dims headlights.
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