Golfhunter 0 Posté(e) le 11 janvier 2008 Pour campagne publicitaire mensongère autour du Bio-power La raison serait que Saab donne bonne conscience aux propriètaires de Saabs alors qu'il s'avère que Saab n'est pas une marque aussi propre . Ils emboitent ainsi le pas du bureau de controle des publicité belge qui en November avait dejà averti Saab qu'on ne pouvait faire croire qu'un produit industriel n'avait aucun impact sur l'environnement . "A summons, instigated by Friends of the Earth Europe and delivered by bailiff to Saab's Belgian office, calls on the company to remove all wording and imagery from its website and brochures which associate its cars with nature or the protection of the environment. It must also withdraw false claims that driving a Saab reduces CO2 emissions. Friends of the Earth Europe also highlights in the document that Saab does not display the CO2 emissions or fuel consumption figures of its 'Biopower' engines on its website or in its brochures, which is a violation of Belgian and European law. The manufacturer has eight days to meet the demands, after which time Friends of the Earth Europe will file legal proceedings complaining against the company's misleading advertising. Jeroen Verhoeven, car efficiency campaigner for Friends of the Earth Europe said: "Saab is the latest carmaker to engage in 'greenwash' advertising designed to enhance its green credentials. Instead of fooling consumers thatits cars don't damage the environment, Saab should be making real efforts to improve the fuel efficiency of its vehicles." The action by Friends of the Earth Europe follows a ruling in November last year by the Belgian advertising standards authority (JEP) that Saab must cease an advertisement campaign in which it claimed its 'Biopower' cars made the roads, "finally turn green". The JEP deemed that the wording was in breach of the environmental advertisement code which forbids advertisers from implying a product has no impact on the environment, unless the claims can be proven. Despite this ruling Saab has continued to claim on its website and in its brochures that a car with a 'Biopower' engine will provide drivers with a "clean conscience" about its environmental impact. Saab backs up this assertion by stating that driving a car which runs on E85 - a blend of 85 per cent ethanol and 15 per cent petrol - will reduce its CO2 emissions by 80 per cent. Friends of the Earth Europe argues that the advertising abuses consumer concern for the environment and exploits possible lack of environmental knowledge. Whether CO2 can be saved over the lifecycle of ethanol, and if so by how much, is highly dependent on how the ethanol has been produced. As a car manufacturer, Saab has no control over the origins and production methods of ethanol available at the pump. Ethanol production has wide-ranging negative environmental impacts such as increased water use and land-use changes, and there are challenges in measuring life-cycle emissions from ethanol. Consequently Saab cannot substantiate environmental claims regarding ethanol use, and its statement that ethanol is environmentally friendly is misleading. "Saab is using ethanol as a green alibi to cover up the fact that it is failing to significantly reduce the fuel consumption of it cars," Mr Verhoeven added. Contrary to its claims, the environmental performance of Saab's vehicles is poor.According to official fuel consumption data, which is a key determinant of how much CO2 cars release into the atmosphere, Saab cars rank among the worst, rating from mediocre to very poor Friends of the Earth Europe campaigns for sustainable and just societies and for the protection of the environment, unites more than 30 national organisations with thousands of local groups and is part of the world's largest grassroots environmental network, Friends of the Earth International. Friends of the Earth Europe Partager ce message Lien à poster Partager sur d’autres sites
Viking1 0 Posté(e) le 11 janvier 2008 A l'heure où on nous dit qu'il faut acheter une nouvelle citroën pour consommer moins, sans tenir compte de la pollution créée par la production d'un nouveau véhicule et les déchets occasionnés par l'abandon du précédent (encore qu'il peut continuer à polluer dans d'autres mains)... A l'heure où VW nous donne du "vert" à tout va... Saab n'est pas tout rose... La brochure donne la consommation dans le mode essence et la puissance délivrée par le mode ethanol. Les émissions de CO2 sont en effet renseignées de manière... bizarre. Et bien sûr, on nous vante un véhicule pour lequel on ne peut pas trouver de carburant en Belgique à l'heure actuelle. Mais bon... 1/ Il ne faut pas prendre les gens pour des cons non plus (enfin, pas tous ) ; 2/ C'est un peu dommage de jeter le bébé avec l'eau du bain Dire qu'on vient de fermer une sucrerie flamande pour cause de surproduction de sucre. Et on pleure sur les pauvres agriculteurs qui seraient touchés indirectement. J'ai bien une idée de ce qu'on pourrait faire de leurs betteraves, moi... Partager ce message Lien à poster Partager sur d’autres sites
Golfhunter 0 Posté(e) le 11 janvier 2008 Et les carottes dans l'histoire ? Partager ce message Lien à poster Partager sur d’autres sites
