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Subaru and
Climate Change
Below are
extracts of letters between the car manufacturer Subaru 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.
Subaru is part of the IM Group that also owns Daihatsu and Isuzu
To
Andrew Edmiston, Managing Director –
The
Subaru Legacy
is a winner. It’s practical, it’s tough, it stands out. It’s all the things I am
in my position as a self-made IT millionaire. Congratulations. Even my teenage
delinquent son Wayne has a picture of it up on his bedroom wall, jostling for
space with Jordan and Shakira who he gazes at for longer than is healthy.
I want to congratulate you for not doing anything about climate change. It’s a
fabrication made up by loony greens and lazy journalists based on lies and
distortion. What Car did a survey that said Subaru cars produce 215 g/km of CO2.
That gets my vote! What’s better is that you
didn’t respond to the survey unlike other car makers. Good for you – you’ve got
better things to do than speak to a journalist who uses the words of others to
write his articles.
I see that in California the car industry killed off electric cars by buying up
the technology to make them and then didn’t use it. Maybe that’s an idea for
your R&D department.
Andrew Edmiston replied –
Thank you for your letter of 6 July praising our Legacy and supporting Subaru’s
aim of producing enjoyable driver’s cars.
I would like to point out, however, that we do take environmental issues
seriously and are striving to achieve a balance between performance and low
exhaust emissions.
Rest assured, our cars will still offer a lively drive but combined with low CO2
and great fuel economy. It is always hard to please all of the people all of the
time but we can only try.
Letter to Subaru
Reply from Subaru
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