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Subaru is trending bc of this and @drvox tweet, so I just wanted to thread some reasons I, a fervent outdoor enthusiast raised in Colorado, am extremely disappointed with @subaru_usa 1/ https://twitter.com/MonicaLewinsky/status/1304088028743307264
Most recently, they sided with the Trump administration in the CA lawsuit revoking the clean air act waiver. So now fuel efficiency standards can be rolled back and we can continue to cause the sky to pour out ash along the west coast apparently. 2/ https://www.washingtonpost.com/climate-environment/big-automakers-take-risks-in-siding-with-trump-administration-against-california/2019/10/31/8acf3780-fbfc-11e9-8190-6be4deb56e01_story.html
People were pretty upset, so Subaru released a climate assessment and statement. "we believe that introduction and strengthening of environmental regulations for products are the major risks in the business environment." continued... 3/ https://www.subaru.co.jp/en/csr/environment/050_climaticvariation.html
"AWD... 90% of which Subaru is introducing to the market, has a great opportunity to cope with recent climate change...."
read: Instead of risking profit, we'd rather risk the habitability of the planet, but at least you can drive through the disaster we caused in our car. 4/
read: Instead of risking profit, we'd rather risk the habitability of the planet, but at least you can drive through the disaster we caused in our car. 4/
And I just learned from @CostaSamaras dating back to 2004, Subaru started making their cars bigger so they could be classified as light trucks instead of cars, to get around fuel efficiency standards 5/ https://www.nytimes.com/2004/01/13/business/to-avoid-fuel-limits-subaru-is-turning-a-sedan-into-a-truck.html
ICYMI, automakers have been discontinuing sedans & producing crossovers for YEARS to get around fuel efficiency standards. Claim that "people don't buy sedans" to justify cutting standards even more, even though they took away that choice! https://www.nclnet.org/fuel_inefficiency 5/
I should also mention how much influence groups like the auto alliance have on rulemaking. Now we are paying for it. So Subaru driver, maybe you can't go camping this weekend because of smoke, but hey at least you have AWD if there's a massive flood as a result in a few months. 6
PS this is not to say she should get a Tesla either. But they aren't really comparable.
Oh I almost forgot to mention their recent commercial about a photographer who drove into a wildfire in a Subaru. Lets stop exploiting climate tragedies that you are the cause of
