TITLE

Chevy Launches Phony Save-The-Planet Campaign

AUTHOR(S)
MILLOY, STEVEN
PUB. DATE
December 2010
SOURCE
Human Events;12/20/2010, Vol. 66 Issue 44, p18
SOURCE TYPE
Periodical
DOC. TYPE
Article
ABSTRACT
The article discusses the Chevy Carbon-Reduction program of General Motors (GM) which aims to spend up to 40 million U.S. dollars from 2010-2015 offsetting about eight million metric tones of carbon dioxide. The author describes the program as a phony save-the-planet campaign, which is only 0.004 percent of total emissions over five years. He considers the program as a little more than a 40 million U.S. dollars wealth transfer from consumers via GM to anti-consumer radical environmentalists and their allies.
ACCESSION #
56673130

Tags: CARBON offsetting;  GENERAL Motors Corp.;  CARBON dioxide mitigation;  EMISSIONS (Air pollution);  AIR pollution

 

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