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BMW
and Climate
Change
Below are
extracts of letters between the
car manufacturer BMW and Peter Shullot about climate
change. The letters in full are at the bottom of the page. This is one of 65
sets of letters so you can find out what your supermarket, energy supplier and
car manufacturer, and oil companies, airlines, house builders and other
companies really think about climate change. The name Peter Shullot is
made up – it is an anagram of The Polluters.
BMW also produces the Mini
To Jim
O’Donnell, Managing Director –
I have driven your cars all my life. At present it’s the BMW 3-Series Coupe.
It’s a pleasure to drive – powerful, smooth and big. It really is the ultimate
driving machine. Even my wayward son Wayne (17) understands that when it comes
to BMW, cars are not just about dogging.
What concerns me is the pressures upon you and the car industry due to all this
palaver about climate change. You are expected to cut CO2 emissions are deal
with one law after another. Climate change is a complete fiction – look at the
Oregon Petition that thousands of scientists signed saying it isn’t happening at
all. Despite this I see that your Chancellor Andrea Marble is using the issue to
promote herself, when she should be protecting big business.
I blame the politicians. Dragged from the corridors of committee rooms onto the
streets of real life, they would have trouble knowing a BMW from a Skoda or a
franc from a mark. And our new man Brown has the look of someone trying to get
out a piece of food stuck in his teeth.
Jim O’Donnell replied –
Thank you for your loyal support. The problem with the press and politicians is
that sometimes they do not like the facts to get in the road of a good story.
However, the attached booklet which we have sent to all our key corporate
customers demonstrates how much progress we have made on improving the
efficiency of our cars without diminishing their dynamic driving appeal. This is
the route we shall continue to follow.
Kind Regards
Jim O’Donnell
Letter to BMW
Reply from BMW
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