Quotes about Car Companies from the world's top natural health / natural living authors
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 "Aside from getting on car companies' nerves, the dictate meant that engineers and designers had to figure out a way to make those dead cars valuable and easy
57 to take apart. As with any new development, the mandate initially cost companies time and gave them headaches —but then it started saving them money. It turns out that cars that are easier to disassemble are also easier to assemble."- Alex Steffen, Worldchanging: A User's Guide for the 21st Century (Get the book.) |
 "This obscure list was created by the Auto Industry Action Group, a consortium of car companies created to assist with regulatory and other challenges common to all in the industry. "GADSL is used to enhance further dialogue and cooperation along the supply chain on the benefits and potential risks of certain substances or groups of substances in a specified use within vehicles parts/materials," reads the action group's explanation for the list."- Mark Schapiro, Exposed: The Toxic Chemistry of Everyday Products and What's at Stake for American Power (Get the book.) "U.S. car companies export few cars to Europe; thus, U.S. manufacturers are under little direct pressure to adapt to European standards. But each of the American "big three" has substantial ties to the European market: Ford has its own Ford Europe production facilities, and owns the Jaguar line in the UK; General Motors owns the German Opel, the Swedish Saab, and produces its own line of vehicles in the UK under the Vauxhall label; until May 2007, when it was sold to the U.S. firm Cerberus Capital Managment, Chrysler was owned by the German manufacturer Daimler-Benz." - Mark Schapiro, Exposed: The Toxic Chemistry of Everyday Products and What's at Stake for American Power (Get the book.) "Back in Brussels, Rosalinde van der Vlies, who helped to oversee the ELV as part of her job in the Environment Directorate, told me that Japanese and Korean car companies were already adapting to the ELV directives requirements. In 2006 the Association of Soufh-East Asian Nations issued a policy recommendation that all of Southeast Asia apply similar policies among its membership. Japan already has laws very closely hewing to the guidelines laid down by the European Union." - Mark Schapiro, Exposed: The Toxic Chemistry of Everyday Products and What's at Stake for American Power (Get the book.) |
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