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China's Smog Crisis Bestseller: Bags Of Fresh Mountain Air
No, this is not Tuesday Humor or an April Fool. As the WSJ's China Real-Time blog reports, this is also not a scene from Spaceballs. In the smog-ridden city of Zhengzhou, a Henan-based travel company shipped 20 bright blue bags of fresh mountain air to show oxygen-deprived city residents what they’re missing. Of course, as we have noted previously, the canned-air idea is hardly unique to Henan: Rags-to-riches Chinese tycoon Chen Guangbiao began selling such cans in 2012.
Smog sufferers reportedly wrung the blu ebags out in order to extract every last bit of fresh air possible...
Though the cans seem a little easier to carry...
The cost: $0.80 for a can of fresh air.
Nope, not a joke!
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The world has officially jumped the shark.
It's simply the natural end point of our capitalist system.
Step #1) externalize costs (i.e. poison the air)
Step #2) provide the solution to the lack of fresh air...at cost
Step #3: ??????
Step #4: PROFIT
It's only a joke if you buy it.
there be maui wowie in some of the more expensive bags.
"...factory air conditioned air from our fully factory-equipped air conditioned factory!"
One thing we can be sure of, there is absolulely zero percent chance those bags are filled with "fresh mountain air"
Wasn't there a hippie chick who went to Silicon Valley to raise capital in order to sell cans of fresh air a few years ago?
Is the brand name 'Yu Cho King'?
"Wasn't there a hippie chick who went to Silicon Valley to raise capital in order to sell cans of fresh air a few years ago?"
I find it hard to believe that would work America. Now if she were selling canned panty gas, she'd have already IPO'd and retired.
If I was a prankster with a bad case of gas....oh the possiblities.
Capitalism is not contrary to the understanding of general good and public utility. There's no rule of capitalism that says you should have the right to polute as much as you want. The reality is actually quite contrary to capitalism. It's the fascist relationship between business and government where the government, contrary to the will of the people, sells the right to polute via licensing, allocations, etc.
When the governments give poluters the right to trump the interests of individual rights we have natural conflict.
What is interesting is that at a grass roots level, the polluters are losing out. Example: Smoking in a crowd where people believe they have a right to breathe clean air. I believe China will make modifications as time progresses and they bear more of the social cost of respiratory illness.
only time will tell....but fascism is the culprit here.
Good points anti. That's why we used to be a REPUBLIC. The definition of such gives elementary rights to each and every person to begin with. NOT FOR SALE, NOTHING TO DISCUSS AT .GOV LEVEL.
Well, that just shows you there is no problem that can't be taken care of with technology and more plastic. So there. All you enviironmental whinners can just be quiet now.
What they didn't explain. The lady with the grey hair in the air bag photo is only 39 years old; she's a retired Apple I-Pad assembler.
Buy three, get one free cancer anyway.
Finally!! They have us paying to breathe.
Just close the comments right now.
Hold on to yer horses Jimmy, we haven't even hypothecated that shit yet. A million claims on every bag!
Don't exhale - otherwise you'll owe a carbon tax.
Carbon taxes. Because trees do not vote.
Perhaps we can sequester CO2 in air bags, or produce less beer? Make windbaggery of politicians, and political pundits illegal?
Hold on... Inventing a way to capture that air when they exhail so I can sell it to the trees...
You are reading my mind. Trees to not participate in commerce. We will have to force the trees to buy this product.
Could we still call it 0'Bushcare?
Has anyone given thought to the notion that we already sequester CO2 in Soda, Beer, and CO2 Cartrdges? Every time I got a flat tire on my bike, fired a pellet gun, or pain ball gun, I was contributing to climate change?
it'd be one thing if the .gov didnt have an interest in co2 being a "pollutant" *cough*tax*cough* what it wants, it subsidizes, and if the numbers dont add up, why then, just make sure everyone working on the problem never passed a statistics course.
Next the study on how breathing the air is bad; followed by the law mandating the use of canned air.
Very convenient display of cans just after the gate at LAX...
"Finally!! They have us paying to breathe."
They must have learned this trick from Obummer, who has us paying to exist thanks to ObummerCare.
Prior to the invention of the cigarette, imagine this boardroom meeting:
CEO A: You know, I thought of a gazillion dollar idea, just not sure how to put it into practice.
CEO B: What's that?
CEO A: If we could just figure out how to charge people money to breathe, we would be off the charts rich.
CEO B: Hmmmmm.....
And thus, the cigarette was born.
I'd lmao if those bags were filled with helium and they all started freaking out like a scurry of chipmunks...
That is the second most pathetic photo I've ever seen out of China.
http://www.littleabout.com/cim/swimming-pool-China.jpg
What's the problem. It's simply the markets working the way they are intended.
They poison the air, then they provide the solution at cost.
According to the Invisible Hand, this is totally ethical. Even praiseworthy
President Skroob: Ah, Planet Druidia, and ten thousand years of fresh air.
Dark Helmet: [aside to Colonel Sandurz] The way he runs things, it won't last a hundred.
From Space Balls
How much you wanna bet this "fresh mountain air" was produced by pumping some regular city air through a HEPA filter and putting one of those "new car smell" hanging-tree air fresheners in the bags?
http://www.car-freshner.com/little-trees-air-fresheners/Forest-Fresh-Lit...
Cha-ching.
Well, you would think that with the ionic air purifier craze ten years ago it wouldn't be much of a jump to build portable ionic air purifiers with HEPA filters to those poor schlubs.
I saw my first geezer the other day caring his portable oxygen concentrator around, at least this would suffice short term.
do those things filter out the uranium that's mixed in with the coal, too?
Did they break any copyright laws on this?
Wiating for the selfie of a worker farting in a bag.
Imagine the possibilities... diet air, cherry blossom air... cow pasture fresh and horse stable sport air.
Hope this isn't a test market to see what they can get away with. Should be easy to get away with in the US as long as it doesn't interupt the entertainment news or an sporting events.
There are about 3000 places before China on my list of places to see in this world. But considering the suicide nets outside factories and the bagged air, I think I'll just mark it off the list.
Generally decent but ignorant people. It's hard to imagine but many of them don't travel 20 miles outside their home towns. Many never leave their province. The entire media is under control. These waves of mass stupidity and tragic idiocy are just everyday life for these folks.
I have long had an idea I've called "commoditized air". I have a biz plan about how a unit could attach to standard HVAC and infuse selected air such as Swiss Alps, Florida oranges, Desert air, etc. I can forsee people walking into a home saying "what is that crisp air you have? Its Colorado pass".
I totally forsee commoditized air in our future.
Not to pop your scented air bubble, but has any heard of Renuzit?
Lone star and barf will save china
lone star or Fonestar?
That reminds me that some people actually sell water.
At least the guy is not pretending that the can is filled with dehydrated water.
http://www.buydehydratedwater.com
"7. Are you brainless enough to think a career in selling dehydrated water can actually make you richer than your wildest dreams have ever made you imagine?"
http://www.buydehydratedwater.com/resellers.html
http://www.amazon.com/BuyDehydratedWater-com-Dehydrated-Water-Capsules/d...
It has got to be the date...
April 1st
No, sadly these things do exist. Actually I m considering bottling fresh air too. Swiss Alp fresh air- i ll make a killing worldwide.
Did you know that in Evian, France, there are public fountains in the middle of the town where you can fill your bottles? here's one. http://www.petit-patrimoine.com/fiche-petit-patrimoine.php?id_pp=74119_7
Heck that sells for 1 EUR/liter.
So many ways to spew someone else's money
http://www.bernardfoods.com/foodservice/beverages/dehydatedwater.htm