Steve Brown wrote: > Yes, I am an ACA member. I also own a Subaru. It seems to me that Subaru > support the ACA, not visa-versa. > I bought a Subaru WRX STi because it was about the fastest car I could get > my hands on for the money. You could say my reasons for buying it were > anti-green. > Your position would be more palatable if it included an objective comparison > between Subaru and other manufacturers rather than an attack because they > didn't live up to your subjective standards. > I suspect any factual comparison will show that they have earned their > "green" image, but I am open to evidence to the contrary. Subaru supports a number of "green" organizations, including Leave No Trace, IMBA, and, interestingly, the American Speech-Language-Hearing Association. There is a page on the Subaru website entitled "The Subaru Commitment to the Outdoors". If that's all you know, you might think that the company is really green, but their "commitment" is to building cars that work well in the outdoors, not to preserving it. Read the text, that's all it says. Alder Creek Steve and I (there are too damn many Steves in this discussion) naively believed that Subaru actually was committed to preserving nature. The current brouhaha suggests we may have been wrong. Or at least that they're not the paragons we assumed they were. It's always painful to find your heroes have feet (tires?) of clay. BTW, do you like the WRX STi? If they made a wagon version I'd buy one in a minute. -- Steve Cramer Athens, GA *************************************************************************** PaddleWise Paddling Mailing List - Any opinions or suggestions expressed here are solely those of the writer(s). You must assume the entire responsibility for reliance upon them. All postings copyright the author. Submissions: PaddleWise_at_PaddleWise.net Subscriptions: PaddleWise-request_at_PaddleWise.net Website: http://www.paddlewise.net/ ***************************************************************************Received on Tue Feb 03 2004 - 12:37:42 PST
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