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Two corporate titans who unabashedly promote their environmentalist credibility, General Motors (Chevy Volt) and Wal-Mart (corporate sustainability), were in the news last week. Over at the National Legal and Policy Center blog today I explain how GM is involved in what looks like carbon offset fakery and how the largest retailer in the world allegedly got set on its “Green”-ways by a professional river guide. Eight straight quarters of same-store sales declines don’t help the enviros’ case that sustainable = profitable.
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martin j smith| 6.7.11 @ 3:45PM
Crony Capitalism anyone ?
Al Adab| 6.7.11 @ 3:58PM
Exactly Martin. Corporate Green is either jumping in bed with federal regulators for profit ala GE (once called fascism BTW) or a simple marketing ploy to attract consumers who think there's something to it. Either way it is disingenuous in the extreme and ultimately a disservice to the American people.
We have been already mandatated to buy the GE cfl. What's next? Every second car must be a Chevy Volt?
Conservative Bob| 6.7.11 @ 4:21PM
What do you mean second car... dump that guzzler and by a volt with a 70 mile extenetion cord for those longer trips.
It should be your only car... everything else is decadent and wasteful.
WB| 6.7.11 @ 4:34PM
Yes, and hope the Volt doesn't burst into flames while it's recharging and burn your garage down ... (have you heard about those incidents?)
Al Adab| 6.7.11 @ 5:09PM
Where will they build all the power plants to produce the vast amounts of electricity the cars will require? What will they fuel them with? It can't be coal or oil; not nuclear or hydro. That leaves wind farms and natural gas for which we cannot drill. Seems they have created an untenable box for themselves, yes?
Al Adab| 6.7.11 @ 5:28PM
Give up my '98 Dodge 1500 long bed where the owners manual says not to use any ethanol mix? Not until the engine dies.
Quartermaster| 6.7.11 @ 6:55PM
Being "responsible" doesn't get Wal-Mart a thing. The left hates them no matter what they do. Go back to Sam and Bud's vision and forget about the whiny moonbats. Do what your stock holders expect you to do, make money.
JimH| 6.8.11 @ 8:22AM
The Eco purity notion of electric powered cars does not wash when you look closer at how and where the metals needed for the batteries are mined and processed. Parts of China now look like Mordor. And this is before you even think about disposal. The only way an electric car could reduce rather than relocate pollution would be if the juice came from a nuclear plant.
skedaddle| 6.8.11 @ 10:56AM
Wouldn't it be greener to move manufacturing back closer to consumption? Imagine how many 100 watt Edison lightbulbs could be lit for the fuel in one giant cargo ship bringing lead contaminated junk jewelry to Walmart.
wbfrank| 6.8.11 @ 1:44PM
The following link is worth going to and has everything to do with being "green". It is spot on:
spectator.org/archives/2011/06/06/the-electric-albatross
it just shows you how incredibly stupid they think you all are...
wbfrank| 6.8.11 @ 1:44PM
The following link is worth going to and has everything to do with being "green". It is spot on:
spectator.org/archives/2011/06/06/the-electric-albatross
it just shows you how incredibly stupid they think you all are...
Lia Grahm| 9.12.11 @ 7:50AM
In the capital world making money its what counts. Responsibility is what we call 'nice to have'... Tetris games