Peace, green & health activists: Tell auto makers to help clean up our air NOW...
[Quick, before Ashcroft forbids it!] ... ... and to not wait years (if ever) for hydrogen fuel technologies, when existing, in the house / on the shelf mechanical technologes exist that would double SUV gas mileage and save consumers three times as much or more than what these technologies would cost to install in new vehicles... http://www.autobuyology.org/tellcarmakerstocleantheair.pdf For more healthful, lifeful air... healthier planet and people... You may wish to share this internally... externally, etc. or nada... Air pollution is a very important public health conern that we all can work to reduce, and improve the health of our planet... for all living things... Demand, and encourage others to demand that auto makers help us SPARE OUR AIR... Tell auto makers to clean the air: http://www.autobuyology.org/tellcarmakerstocleantheair.pdf http://www.autobuyology.org/thankyouforteaching.pdf There are existing technologies that auto makers could be using RIGHT NOW (they are in the house, on the shelf -- RIGHT NOW) These mechanical technologies include: 1. Continuously Variable Automatic Transmissions 2. Integrated Starter Generators 3. Variable Valve Control Engines to help us all breathe clean air, reduce global warming, and enhance energy independance... for the future... and, Auto users would save as much as three times in fuel costs over what these technologies would cost to install in new SUVs... I'm not pushing automobiles as a means of transporation, but since so many of us drive or otherwise use autos, shouldn't we, air breathers all, be demanding that the auto industry be more responsible and customer service oriented...? (see sources below for verification of facts regarding costs and mileage efficiencies, the Union of Concerned Scientists found that three of the technologies would more than double the gas mileage of SUVs) ergo... Tell auto owners and air-breathers-all to tell auto makers to make cleaner-air vehicles... for cleaner air, a healthier planet, and healthier people...Clean Air: It's Patriotic! It's healthful! It's Peaceful... Thanks for working for social, economic, political, and ecological peace... Sierra Club's Ford Motors Clean The Air Campaign http://whistler.sierraclub.org/action/?alid=169 National Resource Defense Council's Break the Oil Chain Campaign http://www.nrdcaction.org/breakthechain/index.asp?step=2&item=1505Thank Global Exchange & Rainforest Action Network's Ford Motors Action http://www.RAN.org/news/newsitem.php?id=686&area=home Bluewater Network's Ford Motors Campaign http://www.bluewaternetwork.org A little known fact is that very few models of SUVs and other vehicles are fitted with interior air handling symtems that permit the occupants to keep exterior air from being sucked into the vehicle while the air fan, air conditioner, or vent is turned on... like most often is the case in urban/suburban commuting... With the "president", the EPA, and Congress out of the environmental protection loop, it's up to the rest of us to demand that automakers make environmentally cleaner, and safer vehicles. Write your auto maker today and demand that existing on-the-shelf technologies be used to increase auto efficiency and decrease auto pollution emissions... encourage others to do the same... we all breathe the air we pollute... You can have your station-wagon-on-steriods (SUVs) and clean air too, if only the auto industry would do the right thing, right now! Just tell them to, right now!Tell auto owners to tell auto makers to make cleaner-air vehicles... It may be the fossil-fueled car, stup__, er., dummy? The air we pollute is the air we breathe. ... Tea Ching: The martial art of imparting knowledge during a cultural war. http://www.autobuyology.org/thankyouforteaching.pdf (Eco and financial aid self-help for a lifetime for teachers, students and volunteers) Fight Air Pollution and Terrorism: Practice random acts of carlessnesshood... 1. Curb the car. 2. Drive less. 3. Go carless. 4. Drive & car share. 5. Trip-link. 6. Buy smaller and greener, and rent up or larger when needed. 7. Support auto alternatives for others. 8. Support anti-sprawl growth measures. 9. Revalue and pay less for automobiles. Make the car-deal-literacy-to-library connection and learn the classic car deal mistakes to avoid and save. 10. Negotiate an "environmental inpact deduction" of 3-5% (or more!) off all manufacturer's invoice prices to dealers, and donate this deduction to Greenpeace, the Sierra Club or other frontline environmental organization. It's y'our air... keep it clean. 11. Write to your auto manufacturer (CEO) and make a plea for more healthful and safer vehicles, especially larger vehicles and SUVs... 12. Support and invest in clean renewable energy sources, programs and policies. Peace, & cheers to cleaner air... and healthier people... And thanks for looking out for the trees, and the birds and the bees... reduce, recycle, restore, reuse, recreate... Rand Knox Carlessnesshood 101 for healthier air, planet, & people http://www.autobuyology.org/ PS: Reference: August 11, 2003 New Yorker Magazine "The Car of Tomorrow: Why hydrogen-powered vehicles are attacting some unlikely supporters" by Elizabeth Kolbert Apparently the auto industry is using the promise of not-ready-for-prime-time hydrogen fuel technologies to stall the use of existing on-the-self fuel efficiency technologies that could be reducing substantially our reliance of foreign oil, and reducing our air pollution levels. Also: just read where an SUV owners support group is asking Arianna Huffington to tone it down on the oil for blood war rhetoric in light of the eco-terrorist attacks on Hummers in LA last week... (An SUV owners support group? !!!) As important as individual automobile purchases are, even more important is the lifetime costs of auto ownership and operation... I figure a lifetime of average auto ownership exceeds $450,000... this is more that the median priced American home... x2... do your own math... figure in the social, environmental and personal costs and we're talking real money... Commuters may wish to make sure that their vehicle is fitted with an interior air handling system that permits them to turn off outside polluted gridlock air from entering the vehicle through vents in the front of the vehicles when the AC, heater or vent is operative. If air quality is a concern see if you can find a vehicle that permits occupants to recycle interior air without mixing it with external polluted air... especially during heavy traffic conditions... it makes a difference, not just for asthmatics and the respiratorally impaired, but also for everyone... Quick, before Ashcroft forbids it... PPSS: How Right-Wing Conservatives Have Hijacked U.S. Democracy.url http://www.organicconsumers.org/corp/rightwing120803.cfm Pass this one around folks... 30 years is a long time to wait for governmental sanity... on 12/19/2003 8:46 PM, Colette Mondor at [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Good afternoon - sorry for any duplication. > > > Women's International League for Peace and Freedom (WILPF) Edmonton will be > hosting a writing workshop on January 6, 2004 entitled ACTIVE PEN: Effective > Writing for Change. The workshop will focus on the basic structure, tone and > style of a letter and will also explore how to contact the political forces > as well as the forces that actually do the work. > > The workshop will result in a letter focusing on the ethics involved in CPP > investments. A guest speaker from Amnesty International will discuss AI's > involvement in letter writing campaigns. Kalin > Jensen will be discussing the Edmonton Activist Literature website - a > resource for activists who wish to view examples of activist materials. > > This workshop is free and open to the public. > > January 6th, 7pm - 8:30 pm, Room SUB-011 Student's Union Building, U of A. > For more information please call Colette at 488-5999 or reply to this email. > > > __________________ > Colette Mondor > WILPF Edmonton > Community Relations > > > Click to subscribe to wilpfedmonton: > http://ca.groups.yahoo.com/group/wilpfedmonton/join > > _________________________________________________________________ > Express yourself with cool new emoticons http://www.msn.co.uk/specials/myemo
