Chrysler, Ford join climate action group

Chrysler Group and Ford Motor Co. Wednesday announced that they have joined the United States Climate Action Partnership (USCAP), endorsing and participating in the non-partisan group's call for economy-wide mandatory reductions of greenhouse gas emissions.

http://wwj.typepad.com/michigan_future/2007/06/chrysler-ford-j.html

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I have no sympathy what so ever for the auto manufacturers . They have had many years to come up with more efficient cars and trucks yet they stayed with the big oil . In the early 70's when the gas rationing came about both ford and GM were on the bandwagon to make smaller more efficient cars and what happened in the mid 80's . both came back with bigger units and V8 engines and were told they had to sell a certain amount of efficient cars compared to the gass hogs . then they started to make huge SUV's and marketed them as family friendly with complete disreguard to fuel consumption and the public jumped on the bandwagon .

What they did was make things worse with their greed and marketing ploys and the fake city and highway ratings . Even single drivers instead of a car bought some huge pickup truck just to go to work and back never intending to use these for a work truck .

We could have been so much further ahead now if we were aware and smart .

We shall see.


http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Climate_Action_Partnership

http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Weber_Shandwick

It could be years from now and what exactly will they produce and where will these new units be made .

:thumbsup:

check out their site: http://www.us-cap.org/ and some of the member orgs:

USCAP Members Include:
Alcan Inc.
Alcoa
American International Group, Inc. (AIG)
Boston Scientific Corporation
BP America Inc.
Caterpillar Inc.
Chrysler Group
ConocoPhillips
Deere & Company
The Dow Chemical Company
Duke Energy
DuPont
Environmental Defense
Ford Motor Company
FPL Group, Inc.
General Electric
General Motors Corp.
Johnson & Johnson
Marsh, Inc.
National Wildlife Federation
Natural Resources Defense Council
The Nature Conservancy
PepsiCo
Pew Center on Global Climate Change
PG&E Corporation
PNM Resources
Shell
Siemens Corporation
World Resources Institute

to solve the environmental crisis.

PR doesn't work with people who are politically aware and have the internets at hand, but thanks for the information anyway. It's always good to know what the dark side is up to and how they'll spin it.