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Canadians Sell Cans Of "Rocky Mountain Air" To Choking Chinese
The Chinese are so desperate for clean air - amid the most disgusting pollution in history - that they have turned to buying cans of fresh air to breathe during the most smog-filled days. With low oil prices crushing their economy, Canada has begun to export another resource as CNBC reports Alberta-based Vitality Air is selling "Rocky Mountain air" to the Chinese for $10 to $20 per can.
Facing this...
The Chinese have turned to this...
Canada may be struggling with low oil prices, but China's latest environmental crisis is proving to be a lucrative opportunity for another of its natural resources - Rocky Mountain air.
Alberta-based Vitality Air has been cashing in on Beijing's worsening air quality problems, selling aluminum cans of "fresh clean air and oxygen" from the picturesque Rocky Mountains for around $10 to $20 each.
Vitality Air's China representative Harrison Wang said told MailOnline that they sold out almost instantly after marketing the product on China's e-commerce website Taobao. They'll be sending another 700 bottles to China in the coming weeks, topping their first 500-bottle shipment.
"We have sold everything, and we now have a bunch of customers and people wanting to be our distributors," Harrison said.
Founders Moses Lam and Troy Paquette admitted to Canadian media that the project first started as a joke, selling their first sealable food bag of air for 99 cents on eBay. The then sold a second bag that raked in $168 Canadian dollars ($122).
They launched Vitality Air shortly afterward.
But for those who are still laughing at the idea of selling air that usually comes for free, the website reminds us that bottled water also used to be a punchline: "The truth is we've begun to appreciate the clean, pure and refreshing taste of quality water," the website reads. "Air is going the same way."
"Just like bottled water, premium air is a growing industry because people are noticing the difference."
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How long before Canadian air is taxed...?
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Capitalism at her finest.
http://hedgeaccordingly.com/2015/03/shanghai-pollution-documentary-could...
Who wants in on Colorado Rocky Mountain High(TM) in a can? Picture of John Denver on it. "Breathe in relief, breathe in the leaf". We'll be rich, rich I tells ya!
Who in their right mind would bid on Canadian air?
I'm holding out for the next FleaBay auction on a "Pre-Owned Kim Kardashian Thong."
I hear it's a 3X Plus women's size and has a "genuine slightly used smell and feel, still moist to the touch."
Sad to say, I was outbid three times already for her [used] bicycle seats.
They can enough air up there Canada'll start to really suck.
I'm going to Beijing for Chinese New Year. I'll take some pics.
I have to admit that while I've seen smog enveloping the Bird's Nest (stadium pictured), I have never seen it that bad. For those who haven't experienced the pollution, you can't walk around outside for more than an hour or so before it becomes difficult to breathe.
In previous visits I saw anti-pollution trucks spraying water up into the air to keep the PM10/PM2.5 down. I wonder if they were cancelled to save money?
my best friend lives there and I get to see pics/hear descriptions almost every day. ZH's choice of pictures are pretty indicative of the situation there.... ZH can sometimes cherry pick stuff but in this case it really is that bad
one example that I think really illustrates how bad it is: she wants to buy a new handbag, OK whatever. she actually won't buy certain colours of leather because she knows the smog will make it dirty too fast
i mean, think about that lol it really affects every facet of your life... not just health but how you dry clean a suit, whether you keep an extra dress shirt at work. By other friend stopped wearing suits to work... he keeps them in the dryclean bag, and then puts them in yet another suit bag, and it carries the entire suit in the bags until he gets to work and doesn't put it on until he's inside the building, because he doesn't want to get the smog on his white shirts or otherwise in his suit jacket
it's really pretty bad
not every day is... there are still quite a few decent days, even some nice days. a few days after that 'record worst' day, they even had some blue skies. but most of the time since ummm golden week or whatever in october it's been pretty bad. it may clear up a little in jan if it warms up again but i could see start of feb at spring festival been horrible.
Asians.
Stupid little fuckers and breeding like cock roaches.
I had a layover at Beijing airport of a few hours. The smog was thick. Smelled just about like diesel exhaust. First time I stepped out I figured that smell would go away but over the course of a few hours - nope, never did. Nasty.
nature abores a vacuum.
Joni Mitchell will have a new song coming out. Remember "I could drink a case of you"
haha eh!
It's a Canadian Canspiracy!
That was bad (but I H/T you anyway).
Let's sell um' some fart spray.
label it "Buttercup"
Although I will admit that in the 80's and in Europe I thought the natives were just trying to be "trendy" when drinking bottled water. I thought "Nah, never in the U.S".....man I was I ever wrong.
Mis-labeling cans can be hilarious.
http://twitika.com/posts/68363
Spaceballs the Prophecy ... The quest for Perri-Air.
Premier Scroob of the PRC approved
Next up ... Chinese Mega-Maid. But show doesn't suck or blow. She kafkafeits.
Notice how pollution is ignored and offshored while the hysteria over "climate change" is peddaled to punish us serfs.
But the plebs in the West are guilty of causing 'Climate Change', aren't they?
So pay your guilt tax mugs and eat dust!
The agenda rolls on......
http://beforeitsnews.com/conspiracy-theories/2015/12/as-events-spiral-ou...
We're the Spaceballs!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SiabeNR_q0UI'm sellin' buttcracks full of sand for 4 bucks plus tax!
packed by weight; not by volume
That should make up for those big oil sector losses.
Just wait'll the carbon tax possee gets ahold of them!
It is time to retalk NAFTA
This is the kind of shit SANE people used to joke about. Get some for the mouthbreather on your shopping list.....
Their website is total bullshit.
http://vitalityair.com/
ROFL. Here's a testimonial from that site:
"My family and I live in an area with clean air. Or so I thought. After one breath of this "real" air, I saw the filth I was filling my lungs with for what it was. I am now germaphobic and get withdrawal symptoms if I spend too long without some vitality air. In fact, it's been 5 minutes since my last hit and my hands are shaking so badly I can barely type. Thank you for taking advantage of my addictive personality!"
How the hell does someone ride their bike in that? During San Diego wildfires I could barely get the animals fed with a soaked bandana over my nose and mouth. Hacked up soot for weeks. They must be made of sterner stuff.
Miffed
Goes to show Americans are pussies or have been pussified.
I think it's still a joke. They're seeing how far they can take it.
Could be. But there is some amazing potential when it comes to using this, or something like this, as a money transfer scheme.
When people say these things, I believe it should be mandatory that they reveal where they are from.
Miffed, many of those people have no other way to get around. I think it's also the reason why the retirement age is in the 50s over there.
Har-har-har. It's all about getting money OUT of China. I'd be interested in seeing who the domestic Chinese agents for this product are. Probably bought a million cans of the stuff wholesale (for cash, of course) and are putting it in a warehouse in downtown Tianjin.
But isn't there still a limit on how much a person can convert out of RMB into Canadian dollars or USD?
Or do they suddenly have 50 brothers and sisters and 100 'friends' who help them convert their yuan then buy?
BTW, I am still tryhing to figure out how they buy those $2 million house sin Cali in cash?
If you have to "buy" all this Canadian air, that requires a transfer of cash out of China and into your shell company in the Great White North. Just like paying for Autralian iron ore or Chilean copper. Money has to leave the country to buy commodities.
This gets it offshore and who cares if a single can of it ever sells back home. Of course a devastating warehouse fire in a locality notorious for such things can't hurt the bottom line either. You might have to order up another million bottles and send more money out of the country.
Not saying this is the case, but you'd think something similiar to this has to be happening all over China.
Hitlery Clinton can also give you some good pointers on this...
When I was in grad school, we joked that if you saw a $100,000 car driving around, the driver was always an undergrad Chinese princeling. However, it wasn't a joke because that really was the case. The ones who got a green card would also buy up whole streets of houses.
And of course, there's the EB-5 visa aka the "buy your way in for $1 million" visa.
this smog is on purpose chinese came up with some idea of killing the over 60 population trough cancer and copd
it not a bad idea. communists did similar things. as far a i can remember the average life expectation of communist population was 65 for man 75 for woman.
and they tweaked the numbers, i believe the real average life expectation in soviet union was 60.
they perfectly adjusted it so people die if they are no longer usable for workforce and to kill older witnesses
this is so fuckng cool. here is the usa we can get taxed for air we breath out and china will pay for air to breath in..............dayum
We also sell ice to Eskimos
Goes to show Americans are pussies or have been pussified.
Everytime theres a new smog alert issued in Beijing; 10 more houses in Vancouver are immediately sold to new Chinese buyers.
Wait till air from LA makes its way to China.
Would be the ultimate reverse product/marketing scam on the Chinese for all their clones and knockoffs sent here.
Next time Tomas Frieddmann writes a book about how smart the Chinese are, share a photo of a pedestrian in Beijing.
Industrialization does have a price. It seems the price in China is the longevity of the workers. I hope they enjoy all the iGadgets and Chinese reality shows for the rest of their shortened and painful lives. I'm sure it's worth it. Oh, and thanks for all the cheap Chinese stuff you send over. We appreciate consuming it for you.
If they paid their doctors more then bus drivers, China would be a great place for oncologists and pulmonologists.
Their population is aging so there is every reason to believe this is a deliberate attempt to kill off their citizens
It would be cheaper and more convenient if they bought SCUBA tanks filled with Rocky Mountain air.
Can't the Chinese just put their industrial might to work and build thousands of giant fans. You know, blow the smog out over the Pacific. They can power them with coal fired power plants. I actually recall seeing such an idea once in Popular Mechanics a long time ago. It was an idea they had to solve the LA basin pollution problem back in the 70s when we built shit in the USA.
There is absolutely NO technical reason that Chinese companies cannot install scrubbers into their chimney exhausts. None. None, other than having their profitability affected. The government, which loves to issue decrees anyway, needs to decree the mandatory upgrades to filtration systems. It is not an issue of Ability, but of Political Will
This is just a slightly better idea than carbon credits....
Gud 1 ... but our pal 'Al' Gore would vehemently disagree!
Except the gov doesn't force you to pay for it. Free choice to breath smog or gasp like a fish for 3 seconds for $15. I work outside year round in B.C. and the fresh air (very fucking fresh at -25) is my work bonus.
Already knocked off and selling at $2 per cannister on Ali Baba (Nasdaq: BABA). The Canadian connection is a ruse.
What, a Chinese knockoff of authentic Canadian air?
I'm shocked, and left breathless.
with just a hint of cesium!
Interesting. I´ve been leaning toward a bit of aluminum and a splash of berium darling. Are you familiar with the orgasmatron?
Now I know why the energy industry wants to eliminate/corrupt the EPA! So they can sell us oil AND air!
Yeah we don't want any energy businesses sellin' us any oil or energy just as long as we got our wind mills goin' 24-7!
I've been flatulating quite a bit lately. How are sulphur prices doing?
The word is that the Chinese are selling counterfeit Canadian air
Well, we knew that would happen didn't we?
Kinda reminds me of a bottled water company in Montreal.For a decade or more the residents of Montreal swore up and down that this certain bottled water was the best ever.Prosecutors actually attempted to put the Company out of business through Court action.As it turned out,the Judge threw the whole case out saying that the name had nothing to do with it or where they got the water as long as the water and the bottling process passed government health standards.The Company was owned by Hell's Angels and the water came directly out of a water tap in Montreal.
One in one hundred cans contains fart content. The chinese are prolific gamblers.
That was a bad ass movie. Its all about the merchandising!
chinese buying our air.. pretty soon Canada will be an air vaccum.
Moar sweet environmental nonsense and hysteria. A few highly industrialized zones in China are cherry picked for carbon tax extortion justification. Over 95% of China's air and environment is doing just fine. More select bullshit!
I still remember when I could not see air in Beijing. Long time ago. This is so called rising population out of poverty and into hospitals and eventually graves.
Air, a NWO oligarch's wet dream product. Let it disappear for 15 seconds and check out the stampede to get some. Makes the water business look pale.
Lorax movie comes to mind.
I've got the best water in America in my well, frosts over the tap. When the world gets thirsty I've got a deal for ya.
Canada, the Druidia of planet Earth.
I saw the Star Wars movie last night ...
(they switched it from "suck to blow" at the end)
(it was a terrible film)
Jesus Christ, someone actually found a way to sell air. I honestly never thought I would see the day.
Anyone provide some insight on why exactly there is so much smog? Cars, factories, what exactly?
coal plants
Fuck I was right. I've been saying for 20 years to idiots that pay more money for water than gasoline (that have NO more regualtions than regular city water), that some day people would start paying money for air. Seriously, it is perfectly legal for me to bottle tap water and sell it, in Canada anyway.
China is about to implode politically
OR
They are about to start or be pulled into World War 3
(one of the above is true)
(within months)
"There's a sucker born every minute." - P.T. Barnum
Actually, due to high speed sucker making productivity enhancements, there is now a sucker born every second
My butt says tax this air.....
China should can it's air and sell it to aliens that have adapted to smog. There could even be vintages. May 30, 2015 near the People's Metal Factory #2. Or Downtown Evening Dec 2, 2015.
This is ridiculous ... the obvious answer is just don't breathe.
If you like your air... you can keep your air,,, (had to say it).
And the idiot North Americans bought Pet Rocks...
Idiocracy.
Why don't they die?