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  • Living in a 3 world country is bad isnt it?

    This is the consequence of your (quality) developed way of life in your (1 world country).

    You will see your quality way of life in the near future, you worthless, greedy, pathetic human race.

  • CHINA HAS NO POLUTION CONTROLS IF THEY HAD ANYWHERE NEAR THE CONTROLS THE U.S. CURRENTLY HAS THERE WOULD BE 70% LESS POLUTION EMITTED BY THEM ,,,ALL THE NAY SAYERS SHOULD PERHAPS MOVE TO CHINA SINCE THEIR LOYALITIES LAY THERE...G.T.F.O. AND GO LIVE IN YOUR DELUSION.......LOOSERS!!!!

  • BOYCOTT CHINESE PRODUCTS

  • china SUCKS

  • reach deep to see that cheap prices brought by cheap Labor AND greedy ungratifying consumption for its own sake AND creation of millions of marginal, but fed, lifestyles AND the desire to become more in a land of so much despair and hopelessness 20 years ago is now opening to opportunity, hope, and a desire to add value to the world and they do. THESE ARE INTERCONNECTED...take a piece away and put the blinders on if you wish.

  • many Chinese workers are tired at the end of the 10 hour days, 6 days per week, and go home to their highrise, cars cutthem off on their bikes and many get run over daily. Many are isolated within a crowd staring empty on a packed subway, shell-shocked and tired of being sick and tired. I breath heavy and my eyes well up. I could feel the desperation of working so hard and be so stuck. But they are not all in that boat, many study hard and have dreams that are coming true Compassion ppl please

  • it is a testimony to who we are and to what we will accept in the name of comfort. To serve, not point fingers is the proper path. How can I share my experience of "comfort" with a hungry man? How can I bear this shame and not make it right. But I cannot send him a tv dinner to much effect via fedex. I am left with explaining that comforts like all desires become invisible once you take them for granted. I have been hungry maybe 3 times in my life any many wise people fast. We must empathise.

  • clearly, we do not live in isolation with each other. We export manufacturing going to the low price labor to get a "good" deal as determined by the ticket price and not the environmental costs which appear as cancer and over consumption. As I travelled through china I see good people with hearts just like mine with smoggy sky's even in the countryside. This is exactly what we had in the 1960's smog filled sky's. To attempt to blame is to reflect it upon yourselves and to isolate yourself. sad

  • steal....copy....made in fucking china

  • you know what else fuels power plants? marijuana!! legalize it. grow it. use it. its cleaner safer cheaper and yeilds more joules of power than most bio fules and its perfect for desert like climates. this applies to the world. and the us has had worse pollution than china so dont rip on them. if you did your research theres something called the man. the man will bring you down. it is our job as citizens to realize this "fake" world that the man has created for us and to not fall into his trap

  • Hey China FUCK YOU !!

    Think you got bad pollution now? you just wait !!

    Your all sick in the head you commie fucks. Your entire modern culture is based off our ''fat lazy'' American culture. You better prey to what ever made up god you believe in that we don't take you to war because we will fuck you up to no end. If we go to war there is no geneva convention just thousands of tons of high yield nerve gas opening up in your face making you swallow your own tongue.

    Do what the fuck we say

  • @drainocleanser ( from China F- You). China help support U.S.A 4 trillion dollar war against the mulism. You guys chant USA USA ,you should chant China China for lending your counrty money to fight three wars and supporting US troops with the best weapons money can buy. That is a Fact China lends money so U.S..A can fight three was, and maybe four in the near future

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  • @AC2GO777 <<< What the fuck are you talking about?

    Ever hear of Norinco or Poly Tech? They are CN commie manufactures, probably not under the same name now but they are as is. US Solders pick up Chinese manufactured weapons off dead rag heads all the time.

    And as for owing you  LOL

    Average US individual has about 175LBs of residential copper, little do they realize. Average CN has 25LBs of copper. We are the world currency and supply your asses out of the 3rd world. CAN YOU SAY LIMBO?

  • @drainocleanserthis: Fuck you ungreatful Basterd, China lends 2 trillion dollars to the U.S.A to fight three wars.. What do you think the 10 years wars In Iraq, afgahistain cost free. China was nice to lend U.S.A the money. Show some repect to china. Becuase they lend money to the US to fight wars in the name of democarcy.

  • @AC2GO777

    Where are you getting these numbers? And what makes you think they have anything to do with our war ''budget''.....BUDGET, not loan.

    If anything you owe us for all the great philosophical and technological advances we shared with you. Oh i forgot, China doesn't hold its water when dealing with patents or intellectual property. Our artificially deflated materials we share with you, maybe we should stop selling you raw materials and send you back to the 3rd world.

  • @AC2GO777 And you will get it back + a premium. Why should we thank you for profiting off short sighted American policy? Japan also hold significant US debt as does europe but they dont use it as an excuse to act like assholes.

  • @budda100001 Fuck you ungreatful Basterd, China lends 2 trillion dollars to the U.S.A to fight three wars.. What do you think the 10 years wars In Iraq, afgahistain cost free. China was nice to lend U.S.A the money. Show some repect to china. Becuase they lend money to the US to fight wars in the name of democarcy.

  • 为了发展经济,我们也没办法

  • China is one of the few countries that have made HUGE contributions to a cleaner and more renewable energy-friendly world:

    -Worlds largest hydro-electric dam

    -(soon to be) worlds largest wind farm

    -The "green wall of China" made up entirely of trees.

    I applaude China's efforts...

  • China's Daily oil consumption is only 1/3 of what the US consumes in a day.

    China is going to be the largest country using renewable resources.

    China has a much bigger population but consume less.

    Dont you people see? all the negative shit will be said about the chinese until there is a general consensus of hate towards them. then a big event will happen, blame it on the chinese, go to war, take over, and not owe them shit but OWN their shit.

  • white people are just slowly blaming china for everything to start a war... trust me, i see it. i see how slowly people start to hate china from everything to animal rights, to pollution, to being blamed for the ecomony because of the debt. remember the olympics? the opening ceremony? people were saying "omg, china is full of lies, even their opening ceromony was digitally enhanced" notice the hate.. it will be a huge war with china. the war for control of the planet.

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  • china still uses coal LOL

  • @Binerycode And oil price is rising, in U.S. Dollar that is.

  • 哈哈,日本的辐射早已到达美国啦,,,这视频真是有幽默感,,,­,

  • Without China I can not buy a quality item without paying an American an arm and a leg. China saves me a lot of money everyday. My Guitar was made in China same quality as American built for half the price. How do I know it is the same quality? Because I tried them both! Why will I continue to support Chinese products? The products they provide me allow me to live a life with less struggle and more value for my dollar. Thank you China. Capitalism is what created the mess not the country.

  • What happened to the oil / gas / and other toxics BP spilled in the Gulf of Mexico? What about the toxic eWaste US has been exporting to China for several decades?

  • shameless

    it's like a robber got rich by robbing, then he blame other robbers

    I have to say if you wanna live without robbing, just share the money you robbed

  • ALL WORLD QUIT BUYING CHINESE PRODUCTS . THATS THE WAY , THEY DESTORY BOTH ENVIRONMENT AND HUMAN BEING . MADE IN CHINA PRODUCT NOT FOR ME . ITS ALL LEAD POISON ESP CHINESE TOYS .

  • @DRAGONKINGOFTIBET well all that stuff is around you so you might die to no offense lol

  • the crusadic journalists are trash of humain, they are the resource of peril.

  • we can see how those crusadic journalists make their pollitic video by some special technique of image.

  • we can see how those crusadic journalist make their pollitic video by some special technique of image.

  • "Excuse"? That's a reason, not an excuse. Goddamn hypocrites.

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  • @1337mth1337 go fuck ur mom. End.

  • @mcpwnd1 suck my dick. End.

  • @1337mth1337 didn't know u got one....congrats~~ 

  • @1337mth1337 lol china will pwn USA in a few minutes. ppl they are poot but awesome technology.... they got a bit more brain then usa ^^

    end.

  • @1337mth1337 Inbred.

  • China is producing almost the same pollution with USA while their population is at least 5 times bigger, yet you see American media being categorical about China, lol.

  • @panarkas I found out increasingly, western media mostly has become gossip hunter rather than true news reporter. Whatever there's a negative (non-western that is), they tend to sensationalize it with all their wonder.

  • According to wikipedia, China generates 1.95tillion kWh of coal-fire power per year. US generates 1.99trillion kWh. So much about China polluting the world using coal-power. China is a leading figure in using renewable energy while the US fills up the rest of its need with oil and nuclear.

    Total energy consumption per capita in US is 4 times of China. So while China's still way behind the US, the US is busy pointing the finger at China for causing not even close to the damage they're doing.

  • Not only China pollute the earth man... The world countries are polluting the earth. Not the China only!

  • u guys are stupid! you know why? lot of countries bought the polluting quota from china , so that china got a lot of factories to produce the foreign goods.

    therefore, china needs more energy as well as pollute more! don't  blame china please, is should the whole world!

  • @edwincyy I agreed.

  • Why don't all you who are complaining actually use your brain instead? How much people does China have? 1.6 billion. How much does your country have? Quite a whole damn less. Maybe you can get the same ratio of area:people and see how you fucking cope.

  • Lung Disease is a very modern disease.

  • Well if we keep teaching the kids in school COMPUTERS ya know PORN

    all that good stuff we should just revert back to the You tube less way the world used to work.

    see the China pollution busters video on you tube

  • Ohhh, now america is worried about the environment because other country's pollution is reaching in. It didn't seem to be a big deal for Gearge W. Bushs america to pollute out the world at the time of kyotos protocol. Ironic shit

  • pollution has been going on since ancient times

  • China polluting the world??? Fuck you. The west has polluted the planet since the industrial revolution. The west is developed, and now it's China's turn, they blame China for world pollution???? Fucking hypocrites !!!

  • @OhFookinELL We didn't know the effects of pollution back then. Once we did, we worked to change it. China refuses to do the same.

  • @Chris8282 Well, that does'nt seem quite fair does it? The west is developed and polluted the world by doing so, but growing countries like China can't move forward cos the 'west' says so! The west says China is the biggest polluter. No..... the biggest polluters are the developed countries in the west, and have been doing so for the last century.

  • @OhFookinELL Books

    Read them.

  • @Chris8282 I've read enough books thanks. check out Amazon for books on " Western Hypocrisy".

  • @OhFookinELL Every people is hypocritical. The only hypocritical thing is too make the assumption that your people isn't. What are you? Chinese? Russian? Middle-eastern? I could rant all day about your hypocrisy, no matter where you come from.

    China's pollution is harming the world. Fact. 15% of America's pollution on the west coast comes from China. When the West was developing we had no ways to stop pollution nor did we know the consequences. It was also much smaller, less people.

  • @OhFookinELL China doesn't want to prevent pollution because it would harm their GDP growth. China has been stuck in primitive industrialization for decades longer than any other country. The government won't let them change. It's too profitable, at the moment.

    However, their cost in pollution is 3-5% of yearly GDP currently. In 5 years, that will double. The longer China waits, the more costly. So far, the cost to clean up pollution cancels out the last 10 years. That's why China won't change.

  • @OhFookinELL China has access to all the technology we developed to deal with our air pollution. Why not use it and forgo the whole cesspool of coal dust?

  • @OhFookinELL The US isnt pumping shit ton of particulate matter into the air to fuck over europe is it? China needs to at least deal with that kind of pollution.

  • @budda100001 The US has been pumping shit in the air for the last century. You name it, CO2, CFC gasses, and Coal Dust. And now they wanna blame somebody else??? LOL... wat a joke!!! Investigate the 'pollution incident' of London, in December 1952, and tell me you westerners are any better!

  • @OhFookinELL Past tense... Other than CO2 which is a worldwide problem. We were ignorant of the harm they cause and when we found out we developed tech. to counteract the negative effects. You(China) have the benefit of not having to develop the tech. or learn the hard way yet you don't give a shit. All the other Asian economies developed without the rampant disregard for the environment so why cant you? China cuts corners and doesn't give a shit about the negative consequences.

  • @budda100001 And mind you when your shit starts affecting other countries economies that is tantamount to war.

  • @budda100001 Your shit destroyed the ozone layer in the first place! Now are you gonna blame china for that??

  • @budda100001 Past tense???? so that makes it alright does it?? Other Asian countries economy is'nt growing as fast as China's is it?? that's why they don't pollute as much. Let's put it this way, if China built more nuclear power stations, there will always be someone like you who dissaprove. It's a no win situation for china. Why don't you just say you westerners don't want to see china take off economically. the west is rich and developed. let others do it too!

  • Chinese leaders are incompetent.

  • So this is how desert expanded.

  • the truth is the whole world is paying the price for the kind of culture that america or older western culture propogated ; "america is paying the price for chinas polluted rise to prosperity " is a deeply hypocritical short sighted comment . TAKING RESPONSIBILITY is not part of the so called great nations

  • @shrey2smart Well, thanks to the self-lying hypocrites who doesn't know the shame even when making excuses.

  • this is inevitable. but the burden of climate change is a burden of all humans and it affects or will affect every nation on the planet. so it is an issue of international organazations and not individual nations

  • @xLossage I couldn't agree with you more my friend. I live in Louisiana and you should see the dump!

  • @xLossage USA was the richest country; not anymore my friend. USA is in such debt that its ridiculous.

  • im sad how my country china is destroying itself to grow the economy. at least japan didnt pollute itself to grow 2nd largest economy

  • we are sugar coated with cheap prices but are writing our own death sentence.

    crap.

  • @xLossage uhhh crime and drug trading rates are wayyyyyy higher in china.... america is one of the safest countries in the world. USA does NOT have better things to do like that wtf lol what usa is doing is spending all that money on wars and shit to get a few people rich

  • I like the special effect that makes any city look clean or dirty. Very convenient if you want to manipulate 'facts'.

  • Fucking sad we humans live on this earth.

  • Pure propaganda?

  • Ha we're shitting on ourselves, and deserve it..

  • Thank God for the pollution-without it our world would be a lot more overpopulated than it is now.

  • id still say,turn this planet into a nature preserve...and lets us move onto space(our solar system).

    Did you know there is more water in the universe,than soil?

    Wars will be fought over soil,not water as you can easily build a few desalinization plants near the oceans,to produce as much water as you want. China is RAPIDLY feeling the affects of desertification,due to it's over farming it's land.That is the reason why china is buying up all the land in USA,to feed it's population!

  • FCK YEA, TAKE THAT AMERICA

  • US blames China for pollution? What a joke! US polluted the Earth for a whole century and still on par with China on emission today with a lot less population. hypocrite!

  • hmm if america has 1.3 billion ppl....i wonder how much pollution they will create...

  • hahahaha...............China pollution reaches us . what a joke.

  • I hate cities I don't know how anyone can stand to breath in them.

  • Well, I guess Americans can't complain about Chinese pollution anymore now that they are ones polluting the Gulf of Mexico. And the people running the oil drill are too stupid and cheap to fix the problem.

  • I hope the pollution from China chokes the West to death. It was in the first place the bloody West, after all, that compelled China in the 19th Century to adopt the whole ethos of industrial growth, which is slowly destroying the biosphere. If not for the West, the Chinese would have continued living their traditional way of life, which had lasted for millennia and had very little impact on the global environment.

  • no you fail _!_USA_!_

  • US - suuuuuux China - suuuuuxx

  • Well, from my experience and studying pollution in China... China has the best pollution laws. Even better than America. But the problem is enforcing it. That is China's main problem. They have trouble enforcing laws because there is a split between the central and local government. The local government only wants to "develop economically, clean later." They only care for their own local goals while the central government is trying to enforce "develop economically

  • @xPhiliax while being environmentally friendly. They have advertisements around Beijing promoting "protect the environment." But with this split and many other factors.. who knows when things will turn out for the better. (BTW, the reason why China is proud to have so many cars is because of culture. Having a car means high economic status. Yes it's stupid since they would use cars to just go down the street.)

  • Thats insane,that country is 5 DECADES behind the U.S.

  • cuz every people only think of economy

  • Well now I can see why Cali is so damn pooluted now. And thanks to lazy china with all thei technology its polluting the world. This is the reason we have global warming cuz the lazy people want machines to do their jobs. Gloabal warming is not caused by nature cuz the earth has its OWN weather and temperature. I feel sorry for china.

  • PS- with all the techology avaible. Why doesn't there exist cars that don't run on gas, oil and all the other shit that causes pollution. Also why there exist stuff that doesn't need shit like coal and other things that cause pollution?

  • Maybe we should manufacture our own, eco-friendly stuff, instead of sending production to China! It's = to exporting pollution, which then blows back. Now that's karma!

  • @GreenLiberationSalon fuck eco friendly shit

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  • give peace a chance

  • why should i give peace a chance?

  • haha we gotta take away our mcdonalds first

  • ...Oh this sucks. We need to educate others, not play the blame game before the damage becomes too severe.

  • You should start educate your own citizens...first.

  • Stop saying judging by race Americans/ Chineese. See the truth,We all must take a personal responsability for all our actions. Chineese must enforce EPA standards and stop using the greedy American CEO's as a an escape goat to feed their economy. Americans also need to stop mindlessly buying from greedy corporations who are using cheap labor and destroying the environment. That cheap price costs in sickness and cost the world to clean up the pollution. There is no easy money.

  • don't blame "Chinese" products on China, blame it on the U.S. and other Western businessmen who put their factories in China, or use Chinese factories because labor is so cheap there... I guess exploiting others is the American way. can't say i'm too proud to be American sometimes.

  • stop making factory in china! it is bs that u.s said that pollution reaching them since they buy stuff from china

  • Stop buying chinese poisen products -

  • stop buying chinese products? go ahead. then china will stop buying US treasuries

  • United States shouldn't have to worry about pollution since they're already killing themselves off with caffeine and overeating.

  • then why dont u fuckin lazy americans make ur own shit instead of transferring all the factories to china. stupid dumbshit

  • Chinese laboring is cheap and besides, who's gonna feed the chinese workers, you?

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  • as if that will work....

  • @planetcoco1 thats not fair their still developing its like saying don't buy american goods their polluting the world

  • @planetcoco1 yeah that a good idea :]

  • @planetcoco1 That's impossible. You're going to need to make your own stuff then.

  • @planetcoco1 so no more xbox 360,no more lenovo products

    bottom line.your a typical american that sterotypes china products to be bad when they did make quality products wait.....or maybe your just a troll.ha how ironic mr atomic bomb dropper that polluted japan for years

  • @planetcoco1 Goodbye stable economy D:

  • @planetcoco1 You're wrong... Not only China pullute the world.

  • US is the source of global warming and the root of world wide financial melt down.

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  • @litha85 Its called NIMBY, and it happens everywhere. Are you saying the US is exploiting China? More like China is exploiting its own people.

  • @litha85 if the USA is making so much off of China - why do we owe them 2,500,000,000,000 dollars?

  • @litha85 somehow? It's business, minus ethics, and of course if someone takes a shit in your backyard you're going to be pissed. Business is to buy cheap and sell high; thats all they are concerned about , and not how it's made - thats how it's always going to be... China is reaping a fraction of the profits on goods but how much are they making on US loans...? Were're not talking about african diamonds here, China is the one that's setting their prices and it is costing their nation its health.

  • all your trash are belong to us... =( i hope with a solution is found soon.

  • Well said.

  • what do you expect you idiots. they are most populated nation in the world, and they're in "developing/industrial" stage.

    US and Japan already had their turn polluting the world when they were industrial nations. So what's the difference to China?? Hypocrites.

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  • tom the fuckwit

  • fuck china...it destroy the beatiful world

  • fuck you

  • hahaha OTAY, dude.  you sound so educated *wink

  • Dead Humans Walking!

  • Also energy efficiency of US is 2.0, Japan 1.0, China 8.7, Germany 1.6, England 1.4. So it's not hypocritical and people in China need to put more and more effort on their environment.

  • of course lots of people are living in the country side and they are too poor to buy a car, so it's no point to devide the pollution by total population. When you calculate pollution devide by peple living in the city, then compared to the other cities in the other countries, and you would know how much pollution each person make.

  • yet the government banned plastic bags, a measure that i think is drastically more extreme than any western nations, as well as Japan.

    Most of the pollutions comes from manufacturing industries supplying the commercial products for western nations.

  • Under cover my arse!! more like under the bed with your toys!!!!!!!!!!

  • "FYI the communists have been LOOTING Tibet since 1949."

    "Remember hundreds of thosands of Tibetans have been KILLED by the communists in Tibet."

    Any real proof? What the heck do you think UN have been doing? If there's been massacres, won't the world be sending missiles to China by now? Obviously it's a down right lie and world leaders knows it, but sorry they don't think it's important enough to tell you about what they think.

  • xuci111111

    why you commenting there ??? are you lost ???

  • fucjape

    What are you talking about ???

  • So we're just the #2 biggest polluter now and we're criticizing China? Something seems skewed in that logic.

  • you talk about human rights,the US went to Vietnam and killed every fucking thing that moved, and when thay could not win thay fucked the place with poison, many babys are still dying from that shit, so do not talk about human rights

  • Do you know about the Spratly Reef Massacre ???

  • I thought we were talking about pollution problems? And don't avoid the question, do you, or do you not acknowledge much of today's developing problems are caused by the west?

    Plus, FYI Do I know how the American government run America? Even if I do, who gives me the right to nose in other country's internal affairs? Chinese people can laugh at your stupidity even if they don't bother comment. Who gave you the right to meddle with Chinese affairs?

  • xuci111111

    fucjape was talking about human rights.

    You are changing to subject to suit youself. Please learn how to use youtube.

  • spratlyreef massacre is an idiot with multiple accounts

    somehow for him everything lead to tibet

    he is from new zealand

    and he troll free tibet videos everday

  • You subsribe to OptionM45.

    OptionM45 must have brianwashed you.

    Free China and the US from pollution.

  • yeah free pollution

    btw i have no time fighting with you 24/7 for your entertainment

  • I have all day to talk about motor racing.

    Do you like F1 ???

  • @xuci111111 Have you ever tried to study these issues? HAve you tried to understand both where America comes from and China? I agree that people should provide evidence before they claim something but you shouldn't be so uptight about it.

  • @xPhiliax Dude, do you know me? If you don't, don't assume things kk?

    I live in the UK, I get CNN free on Freeview, not to mention Sky covers most of the mainstream American channels, you think I don't know anything about western viewpoints?

    Uptight? Oh so courts shouldn't be "uptight" when they're investigating a murder case, and people shouldn't be "uptight" about who's the real murderer anyway, right?

    Who taught you the basic logics?

  • and usa needs to get out of every country nd get rid of nascar its wasteful and dangerous

  • well said. nascar? what a WASTE! it's sooooooooooooooooooooooooooo BORING!

  • i know right 1000 laps doing the same

    i mean sleep for two hours and then you will prob see the same thing happen

  • Nascar is like the communist party.

    A wreck waiting to happen.

  • why did you shut down your spratlyreefmasacre account

    and your a wreck

    one day you will wake up in new zealand and say to yourself

    "im bored of chinabashing i should take a break and go on vacation"

    why dont you do that

    go to zimbabwe and help the people there if your so concern

  • You don't know much about youtube. No surprise there. I love your name and so appropriate. The best name I have come across.

    I have made comments on Zimbabwe videos, but the world knows out Zimbabwe.

    Have you heard of Falun Gong ?????

  • you really do have shortterm memory

    i aruged with u in like free tibet videos for 3 months so of course i noe wat falun gong is

  • Have you seen this report ???

    BLOODY HARVEST

    An Independent Investigation into Allegations of organ Harvesting of Falun gong practitioners in china

    by David Matas and Hon. David Kilgour

    organharvestinvestigation. net

    (take out spaces)

    Am I the only person you argue with?

  • bascially yes cuz u keep responding

    and plus they were celebrating when the people of sichuan died in that earthquake a year ago

    what do innocent people have to do with ccp

    whatever they say they just look stupid

  • usa needs to get their act together before criticizing others

  • and the chinese communist party needs to get its act together over human rights.

  • and yet there is nascar

  • More commonly known as crashcar

    Do you know about motor racing ???

  • yeah and drifting japanese bashing chinese haha

  • How about 24 hour races ???

    Do you know about those ???

  • no thats just stupid

    who will be awake 24 hours driving

    they would need a lot of coffee

  • Looks like you don't know much about motor racing. No surprise there.

    You have such a great name. You are an inspiration.

    Free China

  • correction

    Nascar is often known as crashcar

  • so why do all your news service's say china all the time?? and all you fucking factorys are in our coutury,because to make your cock suckers share holders rich, so steek for you self you fuckwit!!

  • BBC backs the communists and is a JOKE.