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Mitsubishi and
Climate Change
Below are
extracts of letters between the car manufacturer Mitsubishi 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.
To Jim
Tyrrell, Managing Director –
How is it that time and
time again you get your 4x4s right? Presently it’s the
Outlander.
The high driving position means I am ruler of everything I survey. Or maybe
that’s just when I’m in the office car park – looking down at the lesser cars of
my underlings.
Why I’m writing is because climate change keeps clogging up the news. It’s
either melting ice caps or badly dressed demonstrators. Don’t they know it’s a
myth?
I see that you have no truck with this delusion. “New Outlander – it’s rude to
guzzle” says your advert. That’s right. Stick to what you’re best at. Making 4
cylinder, 2.4 litre, 159 lb ft of torque, 4-wheel, CO2 belching, mega-steel
tanks of power! Please assure me that it will always be this way and that you
won’t be overtaken by this tide of green oppression.
Jim Tyrrell replied –
The issues of 4 x 4s and the environment is a very complex one and there are
many varying opinions. We have made a corporate decision not to comment but to
operate within the parameters established by the government.
I hope you have many happy miles of driving in your Mitsubishi Outlander.
Yours sincerely
Jim Tyrrell
Letter to Mitsubishi
Reply from Mitsubishi
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