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Global
Warming Solutions
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air pollution and climate change by promoting clean fuels and technologies
for automobiles.
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Tell
Ford it can't have it both ways
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Ford has broken its promise to protect
the planet. In 2003, Ford promised to turn the company into a force
for environmental good by improving SUV fuel mileage 25% and going
“beyond the requirements of the law to preserve and protect
the environment”. Within three years, Ford reneged on this
pledge to boost SUV fuel mileage, lobbied Congress against improved
fuel mileage standards, and moved the company to last place on fuel
efficiency.
Now Ford has set an internal goal to reduce global warming emissions
45% by 2030, without any measurable results in the near future.
This goal could be accomplished today, using existing technology.
Why wait a quarter century?
Despite global warming, increased
fuel prices, and oil dependence concerns, progress on important
fuel efficiency legislation has been stalled, and Ford’s vehicles
have become less efficient
than any other major automaker. The result? Pollution from Ford
vehicles will continue to escalate global warming just when it’s
most critical to start reducing it.
Bluewater has unleashed a nationwide pledge drive and ad campaign
asking Ford to protect the planet. Send
Ford's Chief Executive Officer, Alan Mulally, your pledge committing
not to buy a Ford vehicle (including Volvo, Mazda, Jaguar, and Land/Range
Rover) until Ford commits to stop warming the planet. Until then,
the planet cannot afford a Ford.
We urgently need your help -- please send
your pledge today and tell your friends. And please consider
a contribution to help
us buy our next ad!
Read the
Latest News
Ford
to Reduce Goals for Hybrid Vehicles
Environmentalists
Attack Ford’s Latest “Promise”
Ford
Can’t ‘Escape’ Lowest EPA Fuel-Efficiency Ranking
NY
Times Ad Attacks Ford for Worst U.S. Fuel Mileage
Ford
Motors Threatens To Sue Environmental Group Over “Pinocchio” Ads
To read Ford's letter to Bluewater, click
here. To read Bluewater's response, click
here.
Environmentalists
Target Ford for Broken Pledge to Improve SUV Efficiency
Students
Call Ford Exec., Tell Ford Motor Co. to Clean Up Dirty Vehicles
- Michigan Daily
June 2003: Bluewater Network Op-Ed
in San Francisco Chronicle -- "Getting
Tough on Ford"
May 2003: Bluewater Network press
release "Ford Motor Company Threatened With Consumer Boycott"
Bluewater Network letter
to Bill Ford
Read
our Growing List of Victories
2003
Bluewater Network Executive Director speaks about Ford’s broken
promises to build clean cars at the Ford Motor Company’s annual
meeting. CEO Bill Ford Jr. pledges to meet with Bluewater and other
environmental organizations to discuss our concerns.
Bluewater Network staff and volunteers
staged a global warming educational event by using bicycles to tow
a smoke-spewing Ford SUV through the San Francisco Gay Pride Parade.
The SUV was painted with “Gas is Driving Global Warming”
and “Boycott Ford.” Volunteers handed the crowd quick
facts about Ford and global warming, and over 200 parade spectators
signed postcards promising to boycott Ford vehicles. See
photos of the event.
2002
The California Legislature passes AB 1493, landmark legislation
sponsored by Bluewater Network which reduces greenhouse gas emissions
from passenger vehicles and light-duty trucks. California Governor
Gray Davis signs AB 1493 into law. As part of the Alliance of Automobile
Manufacturers, Ford threatens to sue the state.
Read
the Following to Learn More
July
2004 Campaign Ad from New York Times
February
2004 Campaign Ad from New York Times featuring Bill Ford
as Pinocchio
February
2004 Campaign Ad from other publications featuring Bill Ford as
Pinocchio
Ford's
Declining Fuel Economy:
Bluewater summary of EPA statistics showing Ford has the lowest
fuel economy.
Letter
to Bill Ford: Bluewater's letter announcing the consumer boycott.
Today's
Technology for Tomorrow's Cool Planet: fact sheet about technology
and fuels to reduce or eliminate global warming pollution.
Global
Warming Impacts to Wildlife: one page summary of some of the
impacts global warming will have on protected wildlife at America's
public lands.
Get
Answers to Some Frequently Asked Questions:
What is
the number one cause of global warming?
Visit
these Related Websites:
"Climate
Change 2001: The Scientific Basis": latest report on global
climate change from the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change
US
Environmental Protection Agency's global warming site: government
agency website presenting information on global warming
Worldview
of Global Warming: photographic documentation of global warming
worldwide
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