getting our butt kicked

China's Fuel Efficiency Kicks America's Butt… Posted by Dr. Joseph Romm, Climate Progress at 12:04 PM on March 25, 2008….
Not a single U.S.-made car meets China's fuel standards.
No gasoline-powered car assembled in North America would meet China's current fuel-efficiency standard.
That's mainly because:
Their standard is much higher than ours is currently.
Their standard is a minimum-allowable efficiency standard, not a "fleet-average" standard like ours.
Our lame car companies don't make their (relatively few) most efficient vehicles in this country.
As for our much-hyped new 35-mpg (average) standard -- it will take us in 2020 to where the Chinese are now (but not even to where Japan and Europe were six years ago). If we don't rescind it, that is. So whether you believe in human-caused global warming or peak oil, America remains unprepared to capture the huge explosion in jobs this century for clean, fuel-efficient cars.
Let’s see, exactly what part of getting your butt kicked don’t “we” understand…?

OK… China dominates the products on our consumers purchase. China finances a huge proportion of our American dollar. And now China’s cars are more fuel efficient than any of ours.

And “we” say that China is third-world…?