CHINESE BUY ROCKY MOUNTAIN AIR

Can China really hold out until 2030 to start to attack its pollution problems?

A Canadian start-up company [Vanity Air] bottling fresh air from the Rocky Mountains has seen sales to China soar because of rising pollution levels.*
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“Our first shipment of 500 bottles of fresh air were sold in four days,” co-founder Moses Lam says in a telephone interview with the Telegraph. 

A crate containing 4,000 more bottles is making its way to China, but he says most of that shipment  has been bought.
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A 7.7 Litre can of crisp air taken from Banff National Park in the majestic Rocky Mountains range sells for roughly 100 yuan (£10), which is 50 times more expensive than a bottle of mineral water in China. 

Vitality Air sells bottled fresh air and oxygen across North America, to India and the Middle East. But China remains its biggest overseas market.

* http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/asia/china/12051354/Chinese-buy-up-bottles-of-fresh-air-from-Canada.html

U.S. NOW EXPORTING OIL NEAR RECORD LEVELS

In July, the U.S. exported 441,000 bbl of oil a day.*  The forecast is for the U.S. to export a million barrels a day, exceeding our 1957 export peak!  Also a forecast is that we will be at record oil exports by the end of the year.

If we are exporting oil, apparently we are now independent of importing significant amounts of oil so we then can get out of the Middle East - Right?  We don't need the Keystone XL Pipeline.  We don't need to explore ANWAR for oil in Alaska.  We don't need to import any oil from Canada.  Heck, most of our exports are TO Canada (93%).*  If we are more than selfsufficent in oil so that we can export it, we can stop the expansion of fracking and polluting our land.

If we are not self sufficient in oil, then we should not be exporting it. I'm finding this to be very depressing.

* http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2014-09-30/rising-u-s-crude-exports-move-closer-to-1957-record.html?wpisrc=nl-wonkbk&wpmm=1