{"id":2442,"date":"2008-04-24T09:23:23","date_gmt":"2008-04-24T08:23:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.ethicalquote.com\/index.php\/2008\/04\/24\/toyota-not-so-green\/"},"modified":"2008-04-28T09:31:53","modified_gmt":"2008-04-28T08:31:53","slug":"toyota-not-so-green","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.covalence.ch\/index.php\/2008\/04\/24\/toyota-not-so-green\/","title":{"rendered":"Toyota not so green"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.stopcorporateabuse.org\/cms\/page1664.cfm\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"080427_toyota.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.ethicalquote.com\/newTemplate\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/04\/080427_toyota.jpg\" title=\"080427_toyota.jpg\" alt=\"080427_toyota.jpg\" align=\"right\" \/><\/a>Most of us now understand that pollution from cars causes global warming. So, we also know that driving cleaner cars \u2014 like Toyota\u2019s low-emission, 48 miles-per-gallon (mpg) Prius hybrid \u2014 means less global warming pollution. Unfortunately, the overall truth about Toyota is, well, inconvenient. The carbon footprint of Toyota\u2019s overall car fleet remains dinosaur-esque, and their lobbyists are working to kill national legislation that would force them to stop selling their gas guzzlers by 2020.  Toyota\u2019s opposition to the proposed 35 mpg standard has left many of its loyal, green-minded customers feeling surprised and betrayed: \u201cTo hear all of a sudden that they\u2019re lobbying against the higher [gas mileage] standards makes me nuts. What are they thinking?\u201d asked Mark Gamba, a Prius-owning Oregonian. Meanwhile, competitors like Nissan support the new standards. Toyota is actively lobbying Congress to defeat the proposed measure to increase fuel-efficiency standards to 35 mpg by 2020. The standard would cut more than 200 million metric tons of global warming pollution in 2020 alone. Toyota\u2019s DC lobbying team says its engineers \u201cdon\u2019t know how\u201d to meet the standard.<span><span><span><span>[2]<\/span><\/span><\/span> Could these be the same engineers that already make cars that get 48 mpg? And the same company that already meets Japan\u2019s more rigorous standards? Toyota\u2019s technological know-how seems<em> not<\/em> to be the main roadblock here. Image source: stopcorporateabuse.org. &gt; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.stopcorporateabuse.org\/cms\/page1664.cfm\" target=\"_blank\">Continue<\/a>.<br \/>\n<\/span><\/p>\n<p>News selected by Covalence <span class=\"LinkBlueTransMedium\">| Country: USA<\/span><span class=\"LinkBlueTransMedium\"> | Company: <\/span><span class=\"LinkBlueTransMedium\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.ethicalquote.com\/newTemplate\/index.php\/ethicalquote\/?value=3\">Toyota<\/a>, <\/span><a href=\"http:\/\/www.ethicalquote.com\/newTemplate\/index.php\/ethicalquote\/?value=3\">Nissan<\/a><span class=\"LinkBlueTransMedium\"> | <\/span>Source: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.stopcorporateabuse.org\/cms\/page1664.cfm\" target=\"_blank\">Corporate Accountability International<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Most of us now understand that pollution from cars causes global warming. So, we also know that driving cleaner cars \u2014 like Toyota\u2019s low-emission, 48 miles-per-gallon (mpg) Prius hybrid \u2014 means less global warming pollution. Unfortunately, the overall truth about Toyota is, well, inconvenient. The carbon footprint of Toyota\u2019s overall car fleet remains dinosaur-esque, and&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":665,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_exactmetrics_skip_tracking":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_active":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_note":"","_exactmetrics_sitenote_category":0,"wds_primary_category":0,"wds_primary_post_series":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[128,96],"post_series":[],"class_list":["post-2442","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news","tag-nissan","tag-toyota","entry","no-media"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.covalence.ch\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2442","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.covalence.ch\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.covalence.ch\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.covalence.ch\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/665"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.covalence.ch\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2442"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.covalence.ch\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2442\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.covalence.ch\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2442"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.covalence.ch\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2442"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.covalence.ch\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2442"},{"taxonomy":"post_series","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.covalence.ch\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/post_series?post=2442"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}