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A green Golf - wishful thinking or reality?

Posted by petespeller — 20 August 2012 at 10:26am - Comments
Greenpeace activists display a banner reading "CO2 Das Problem" at the VW factor
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Greenpeace activists display a banner reading "CO2 Das Problem" at the VW factory in Wolfsburg, Germany

Don’t you just hate it when someone has the power to make a real difference, but won’t use it? Take Volkswagen for instance. It’s Europe’s biggest car maker, eager to display itself as a friend of the environment and known worldwide for its high standards of engineering.

Yet for years VW has failed to put its money where its mouth is and commercially produce cars that are both cheap to run and emit far less CO2 than the rest of the market.

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