We won't be better in the end- All crude that can be extracted will still be extracted and burned in an engine. Furthermore, if China's economy goes downhill th

We won't be better in the end- All crude that can be extracted will still be extracted and burned in an engine. Furthermore, if China's economy goes downhill they'll never cut back on their coal burning. Also, they aren't polluting themselves because of "government corruption" but because they have no other avenue to economic growth. A democracy in their position would act no different. I'm not sure it helps anyone or anything if China "gets knocked back a couple of pegs." This isn't a game of cribbage where the US "wins" because the other guy's peg got knocked back a couple of notches. If they lose, we lose. The reason we have our high standard of living is because we've been mooching off the Chinese population's cheap labor for our consumables all this time. The only way the world will burn less oil is if there isn't enough left to burn- Not because the "nice guys" win and will chose to stop polluting... there are no "nice guys".