Contact: Zack Roth, Sierra Club, (202) 675-6279
David
Holtz, Sierra Club, (313) 965-0055
SIERRA CLUB ANNOUNCES CAMPAIGN IN DETROIT
TO PRESSURE AUTOMAKERS TO BUILD CLEANER
CARS
Wednesday at noon the
Sierra Club will kick off a three-year campaign urging the "Big
Three" automakers to improve the fuel efficiency of their cars and
trucks. Executive Director Carl
Pope will announce the campaign to pressure Ford, General Motors, and
Chrysler-Daimler to give American consumers the choice to buy more fuel
efficient vehicles. Pope will be
joined by Dan Becker,
Director of Sierra Club's Clean Energy program, and Chuck Frank, a Chicago auto
dealer and Sierra Club activist. The event will showcase existing
technologies which allow cars to get more miles to the gallon and could be made
widely available almost immediately.
The event will also feature just-completed public opinion research.
The Sierra Club is demanding Detroit
improve the fuel efficiency of its cars, SUVs and pickup trucks to cut our
dependence on foreign oil, save money at the pump and create a cleaner
environment. Congress recently
refused to raise fuel economy standards, forcing the Sierra Club to call on the
automakers directly to give the American people what they want - vehicles that
go farther on a gallon of gas.
WHAT: Sierra Club press conference to announce a campaign to
pressure the "Big Three" automakers to increase the fuel efficiency
of their cars and trucks.
WHO: Carl Pope, Sierra Club Executive Director
Dan
Becker, Sierra Club Clean Energy Program Director
Chuck Frank, Auto dealer and Sierra Club activist
WHEN: Wednesday,
June 12, 2002
Noon EST
WHERE: Wayne Exhibition Hall, in Cobo Center
One
Washington Blvd
Detroit, MI
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