Environmentalists bypass Washington to pressure corporations

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By JOAN LOWY
Scripps Howard News Service

May 26, 2005

<snip> Currently, environmentalists are pressuring Ford Motor Co. to do something that they have been unable to persuade the federal government to order despite more than two decades of lobbying: significantly increase the fuel economy of cars and trucks.

Since the campaign began in 2003, protesters have targeted more than 100 Ford dealerships around the country.

A local order of nuns met with the owner of a Ford dealership in Madison, Wis. Actor Woody Harrelson transported activists to a Santa Fe, N.M., Ford dealership in his bio-diesel bus. Organizers in Greeley, Colo., persuaded a car dealer to write Ford headquarters asking for increases in fuel efficiency.

Greenpeace activists recently forced the temporary shutdown of a Land Rover factory owned by Ford in the United Kingdom by chaining themselves to plant equipment. <snip>

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[Tux]

1. Protest?

Screw it. Buy hybrid for their next car, tell Ford they won't buy Fords till all their cars are hybrids, and continue in life. Ford will only listen to money or the lack thereof.