Ethics of Hummer Transaction
#1
Ethics of Hummer Transaction
... unfortunately this thread doesn't involve women.
From Autoblog: (Is selling Hummer the morally correct thing to do? [w/POLL])
From Autoblog: (Is selling Hummer the morally correct thing to do? [w/POLL])
General Motors' potential sale of Hummer to Tengzhong is probably good news for those interested in seeing the company return to independent and profitable status as quickly as possible. The move should see enable GM to shed the negative political and social association of the star-crossed SUV brand and get some money in return. There is actually a better option, says The New York Times' Ethicist.
The Ethicist frames the issue as figuring out which is more important: GM's employees and shareholders (i.e., the American public) or the environment. Hummer vehicles are too heavy and use too much gas and, the Ethicist says, hazardous products should be regulated by the government. Now that the government basically owns Hummer, there is "an opportunity to reconsider transportation policy, including from a moral perspective. Such an analysis urges not merely discontinuing the Hummer but also significantly reducing our reliance on the private car." Here's more:
Shutting down Hummer could even turn out to be cost-effective. The sale price, perhaps as much as $500 million, may well be dwarfed by the long-term costs - in environmental damage, in public health - to us taxpayers, G.M.'s majority owners, of keeping those three tons of steel on the road. [...] The restructuring of G.M. gives us a chance to avert the fate of being laid low by our own automobiles, the grand manifestation of America's industrial might. The first thing we do, let's kill all the Hummers.
So, what's the right thing to do here?
The Ethicist frames the issue as figuring out which is more important: GM's employees and shareholders (i.e., the American public) or the environment. Hummer vehicles are too heavy and use too much gas and, the Ethicist says, hazardous products should be regulated by the government. Now that the government basically owns Hummer, there is "an opportunity to reconsider transportation policy, including from a moral perspective. Such an analysis urges not merely discontinuing the Hummer but also significantly reducing our reliance on the private car." Here's more:
Shutting down Hummer could even turn out to be cost-effective. The sale price, perhaps as much as $500 million, may well be dwarfed by the long-term costs - in environmental damage, in public health - to us taxpayers, G.M.'s majority owners, of keeping those three tons of steel on the road. [...] The restructuring of G.M. gives us a chance to avert the fate of being laid low by our own automobiles, the grand manifestation of America's industrial might. The first thing we do, let's kill all the Hummers.
So, what's the right thing to do here?
#3
I have become environmentophobic.
I want to punch in the nose all the goddam sheep f*ckers who think a medieval lifestyle is great and impose it to others.
Get me 10 of those H2s, I'll leave them running 24/7.
I want to punch in the nose all the goddam sheep f*ckers who think a medieval lifestyle is great and impose it to others.
Get me 10 of those H2s, I'll leave them running 24/7.
#4
give me 10 H1 Alphas and I'll use 2 with which to pull down that guy's house and the other 8 to spew fumes on his property
#10
" but also significantly reducing our reliance on the private car." Is this person nuts!?! Seriously, what is wrong with some people. I care about the environment as much as the next guy, but come on. As Jeremy Clarkson well put it, it's not what you drive it's how you drive. We saw how an M3 can get better milage than a prius. Besides the fact that the prius is more environmentally unfriendly due to it's construction process.
What people need to focus on is Companies like Lamborghini that are cutting emissions by 35%, and Porsche's GT2 in which the air coming out of the exhaust is cleaner than the air coming into it.
What people need to focus on is Companies like Lamborghini that are cutting emissions by 35%, and Porsche's GT2 in which the air coming out of the exhaust is cleaner than the air coming into it.