Posted on 03/24/2006 1:45:57 PM PST by yhwhsman
Ford's Appeasement Backfires
Thursday, March 23, 2006
By Steven Milloy
Environmental activists took a whack this week at Ford Motor Company CEO Bill Ford in a full-page ad in the New York Times.
Bill Ford ought to be embarrassed – not because the enviros ridiculed him, but because the ad demonstrates that his strategy of appeasing environmentalists is backfiring.
Featuring a weary-eyed Bill Ford pointing in opposite directions, the ad caption reads “When it comes to global warming, Ford can’t have it both ways.”
After Ford caved into pressure from left-wing activist investors and issued a report stating that it “views stabilization of greenhouse gases in the atmosphere and energy security as critical and related business issues that warrant precautionary, prudent and early action,” the enviros thanked Ford in return by accusing his company of putting “more heat-trapping pollution into our skies each year than the entire country of Mexico”; continuing to “produce more global warming pollution on average than any other automaker”; continuing to make SUVs; and fighting a California law that would require a 30 percent reduction in automobile carbon dioxide emissions by 2016.
The enviros glibly conclude their ad by stating, “A healthy planet and a financially sound Ford won’t be achieved until Ford offers a full fleet of cleaner and more innovative vehicles.”
(Excerpt) Read more at foxnews.com ...
Most CEOs have bought into the arthropgenic global warming fiction. Gore is laughing all the way to the bank. I think I'm going to be ill ....
Sounds impressive even if it is almost certainly false. But here's a bit of data to put SUV's in perspective, from the March National Geographic: The US burns more than one billion tons of coal to produce electricity, every year. The Gibson power plant in Indiana--one power plant--burns 300 railroad carloads of coal each day, during the summer--producing 50% more power than the Hoover Dam, enough juice for three million people.
Somehow, I don't get too upset about people driving a car that gets 20 instead of 25 mpg, or using a power mower to cut their grass. The massive scale of the energy industry makes these wacko campaigns look and sound like petulant child's play.
I agree. I'l never buy a Ford product. I like girls, and don't want to be associated with Frankie Fuitcake.
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