Why target Ford specifically?
Although we are trying to reform the business practices of the entire auto industry, we are concentrating our efforts on a single corporationFord Motor Company. Under the leadership of Chairman and CEO, William Clay Ford, Jr., Ford has distinguished in recent years by making pronouncements about its commitment to protecting the environment. Ford likes to say that it is a company full of “environmental heroes.” Yet the company’s rhetoric doesn’t match up with reality. According to the US EPA, Ford vehicles get the worst average fuel economy of all the major automakers. When it comes to gas-guzzling, Ford is the baddest of a bad bunch. The company’s vehicles account for approximately nine percent of the U.S.’s total annual oil consumption, and when it comes to the emission of greenhouse gases, Fords cars are the dirtiest in the industry. If Ford were a country, it would be the 10th largest global warming polluter worldwide behind Italy. To compound these problems, in May 2003, Ford retre
