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Cheap Shot at Toyota
WALL STREET JOURNAL (October 24, 2007) - You can find evidence of the green campaign at truthabouttoyota.com or by thumbing through the collected works of Tom Friedman. Angry Prius owners even staged a rally two weekends ago in Portland, Ore.
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Owners of Toyota vehicles protest auto maker's stand on fuel efficiency
LITTLE ROCK (October 18, 2007) - A small group of Toyota vehicle owners voiced disappointment Thursday with the automaker's opposition to proposed fuel-efficiency standards for new vehicles."Toyota is saying one thing and doing another, and they should know better," said Don Richardson, executive director of the Arkansas Climate Awareness Project, which organized a news conference at the state Capitol.
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Hoosier Group Questions Toyota Fuel Policies
INDIANAPOLIS (October 17, 2007) - Toyota, producer of the hybrid Prius and widely viewed as the carmaker of choice for eco-conscious consumers everywhere, got an earful from its target audience today. Consumers gathered to voice questions about the company's opposition to greater fuel efficiency standards for the auto sector in the United States. A new Web site TruthAboutToyota.com includes information about the real Toyota record, and gives Indiana Toyota Prius owners – and potential owners – the chance to tell the company how they feel.Read More
Ohio Toyota Owners Ask Toyota to Tell Truth About Fuel Efficiency
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Laurie David: Toyota's Betrayal: Oh, What a (Crummy) Feeling!
HUFFINGTON POST (October 14, 2007) - Okay, I can't shake this. I'm taking it very personally. I'm bummed. I've been a Prius owner since 2000. I've promoted the hybrid in countless interviews. I badgered all my family and friends to buy them. The car was -- is -- brilliant, showcasing good design and efficiency, and moving us a step towards a more sensible automotive future.Read More
Stuck in Some Green Mud: Toyota's Opposition to higher mileage standards angers Prius Owners
OREGONIAN (October 12, 2007) - Mark Gamba, a commercial photographer in Milwaukie, trots the globe for adventure pictures and has seen some of global warming's effects firsthand. He's also a longtime Toyota customer who bought a Prius months after the fuel-sipping hybrid debuted, later trading up to a more fuel-efficient 2005 version. In Gamba's eyes, Toyota seemed to have made a conscious decision to be green. Then he found out the company is opposing the U.S. Senate's proposed increases in mileage standards for cars and trucks.
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Toyota's Mileage Plan Opposed by Environmental Groups
BLOOMBERG (October 11, 2007) - Toyota Motor Corp. is the target of a campaign by nine U.S. environmental groups accusing the automaker of thwarting measures to boost fuel economy. The groups ran a full-page advertisement in today's edition of USA Today, created a Web site that invites visitors to send protest letters to Toyota, and urged owners of Prius gasoline- electric hybrid vehicles in 15 states to hold rallies at dealerships to raise questions about Toyota's stance.
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Toyota: Moving Backward - National Environmental Groups Expose Toyota's Duplicity on Fuel Economy
WASHINGTON (October 11, 2007) – Nine of the nation's leading environmental and science-based organizations targeted Toyota today for the company's opposition to legislation before Congress to set the first meaningful increase in fuel economy standards in nearly 30 years. As the producer of the hybrid Prius and other fuel-efficient vehicles, Toyota has publicly opposed a bipartisan Senate compromise to increase fuel economy standards to 35 miles per gallon fleet wide by 2020. In response, the organizations have sent a letter to Toyota North America Chairman and CEO, Shigeru Hayakawa, asking him to stop the companies lobby efforts to “weaken, delay, or eliminate” meaningful fuel economy standards.
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Environmental groups turn up heat on Toyota
DETROIT FREE PRESS (October 11, 2007) - A coalition of nine environmental groups on Thursday launched a campaign against Toyota Motor Co. over its stance on fuel economy bills in Congress, including a petition drive, newspaper ads and rallies at dealerships in 15 states. The groups say they want Toyota to drop its opposition to a standard of 35 miles per gallon by 2020 that passed the U.S. Senate in June.
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Battle over CAFE gets interesting
INDIANA STAR (October 11, 2007) - Some Prius owners upset with Toyota? A former union leader helping environmentalists lobby--against a union position? Only one thing could cause such odd twists: the fight over corporate average fuel economy, or CAFE, standards.
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Toyota's Green Bubble Bursting?
THE HUFFINGTON POST (October 9, 2007) - Toyota has gotten a lot of mileage out of portraying itself as the greenest, most fuel-efficient car company on the planet, and has reaped the benefits both financially and public relations wise. Yet they are careening toward becoming the most hypocritical car company on the planet by aggressively opposing desperately needed higher U.S. fuel economy standards. Toyota should be worried that their green bubble will burst.
Toyota Owners Send Message to the Automaker to Stop Fighting Strong Fuel Economy Standards: Lobbying With the Big Three Puts Toyota's Green Image at Risk
WASHINGTON (October 3, 2007) - In less than two weeks, Toyota Headquarters has received more than 8,150 messages from citizens demanding an explanation for the company's stance on fuel economy. The messages were the result of the automakers' public face of aggressively marketing itself as "green," producing its 55 mpg Prius Hybrid while lobbying Capitol Hill against strong fuel-economy legislation.
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Toyota slammed for opposing mileage standards
THE ASSOCIATED PRESS (October 4, 2007) - During the past two weeks, about 8,300 activists for the group sent e-mails and faxes to Toyota urging the company to support a Senate energy bill that would set a fleet fuel mileage requirement by 2020 of 35 miles a gallon, or 6.7 liters for every 100 kilometers.
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Green groups go after Toyota
USA TODAY (October 4, 2007) - Toyota, which has sold more than 1 million fuel-saving hybrid vehicles worldwide and accounts for 78% of hybrid sales in the USA, is under attack from environmental groups and at least one member of Congress for opposing tough fuel-economy legislation.
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Letter: Do your part to end Iraq War: Voice support for energy bill
TC PALM (October 4, 2007) - As I was plugging along on Interstate 95 listening to the news about the war in Iraq, I looked out to observe a typical south Florida scene: SUVs everywhere. An entire interstate full of vehicles that fuel the crisis in Iraq. There is a solution that isn't as drastic as trading in a Hummer for a bicycle. It's simple: Voice support for the Senate Energy Bill.
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Et Tu, Toyota?
THE NEW YORK TIMES (October 3, 2007) - hat is it about Michigan that seems to encourage assisted suicide? That is all I can think watching Michigan congressmen and senators, led by Representative John Dingell, doing their best imitations of Jack Kevorkian and once again trying to water down efforts by Congress to legislate improved mileage standards for Detroit in the latest draft energy bill.
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White House Taking Unearned Credit for Emissions Cuts Pushing Voluntary Curbs on Greenhouse Gases, Administration Lauds Results of Programs It Opposed
THE WASHINGTON POST (September 27, 2007) - Seeking to counter international pressure to adopt binding limits on greenhouse gas emissions, the Bush administration has been touting the success of three mandatory programs to curb U.S. energy consumption: gas mileage standards for vehicles, efficiency standards for home appliances and state laws requiring utilities to increase their use of renewable energy sources.
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Emissions Ruling to Have National Impact
ASSOCIATE PRESS (September 13, 2007) - A ruling by a Vermont judge this week against the auto industry over tough rules curbing greenhouse gas emissions could have national ramifications, from government agencies developing new regulations to the halls of Congress. The decision, the latest setback for the auto industry, could stifle similar litigation pursued by car makers while placing more pressure on Congress to implement strict fuel economy rules in an energy bill expected to be negotiated this fall.
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Concern rises as prices inflate
AMADOR LEDGER-DISPATCH (September 05, 2007) - Is the continued rise in gasoline prices heralding the dawn of a new era of more inflation? The nation's unquenchable thirst for gasoline, in a large measure due to longer and longer commutes and the effort to find alternative fuels because of the nation's dependency on foreign oil has produced unfathomable unintended consequences: more inflation. Oil and natural gas are the basis of our economy and the nation's chief energy source are becoming scarce. The U.S. is not self-sufficient either nor will it ever be again.
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Preliminary Government MPG Numbers Show CAFE Success, Toyota Faltering
WASHINGTON (August 31, 2007) - A preliminary 2007 model year fuel economy projection for the U.S. automobile fleet from the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration (NHTSA) demonstrates the effectiveness of federal fuel economy laws and growing consumer preference for cleaner, more fuel-efficient vehicles.
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U.S. automakers try to slow CAFE changes
THE POLITICO (September 4, 2007) - Under a withering August sun, more than 100 autoworkers and retirees juggled water bottles and borrowed pens to sign an oversized poster-petition to send to Washington, demanding changes in a Senate bill establishing new gas mileage standards.
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