Keep drinking Fred's Kool-Aid while you admire him while you live below middle class standards.
In the mean we'll look for you on I AM FEDEX.
Now, now, you keep using words with more than one syllable you might strain yourself.
Keep drinking Fred's Kool-Aid while you admire him while you live below middle class standards.
In the mean we'll look for you on I AM FEDEX.
You're right that the very nature of the business makes being Green difficult. My take is that FedEx wants the public to think it's making an all-out effort, when that's just not the case. I can't stand Sarah Palin, but her "lipstick on a pig" analogy seems appropriate for the FedEx Green Team. We're nowhere close to being there, and I think that it's much more about the PR than any real concern for the planet. The solar arrays and energy cells at OAKR and other locations are more of the same IMO.
Actually the "lipstick on a pig" line came from Barack Obama.
I never heard him say it, but she did on the campaign trail. Was she mocking him?
Now, now, you keep using words with more than one syllable you might strain yourself.
You're a fine one to talk. You've really proven yourself an idiot by giving out your name and station ID.
I'm sure your managers have you right in the crosshairs.
In part. But the 1980's sold a lot of Ford Escorts, Chevy Chevettes, and Dodge Omnis that were not even close to up to par but the companies did reinvest and reinvent many of the cars to be competitive if not leaders in the industry. If they never went down the road of efficient vehicles they wouldn't get to where they are.I always thought it was a lot of people buying fuel efficient foreign cars that got the industry to right itself and put out a decent product.
In part. But the 1980's sold a lot of Ford Escorts, Chevy Chevettes, and Dodge Omnis that were not even close to up to par but the companies did reinvest and reinvent many of the cars to be competitive if not leaders in the industry. If they never went down the road of efficient vehicles they wouldn't get to where they are.
But you seem to miss the point. Whether we are "green" or not has nothing to do with our pay and benefits. It's just another way to criticize and belittle the company. And it's a bit disingenuous too. If the company really spent the money necessary to be green better believe it'll come out of the employees' pockets. You don't want that, so why harp on what pretty much every corporation is doing these days,trying to cash in on the latest fad?
Is this Green enough for you?
Including the Cologne hub, the five on-line FedEx solar facilities will reduce annual carbon dioxide emissions by a projected 3,918 metric tons, the equivalent of more than 440,000 gallons of gasoline never burned or over 100,000 tree seedlings growing for 10 years.11 Source: http://www.epa.gov/RDEE/energy-resources/calculator.html
You can't replace a fleet the size of ours overnight, it takes time. Yeah we still burn a ton of fuel, but this makes a big dent in it.......much bigger than the Prius you drive to work.
The other problem with this is that there's just not enough incentive for business to really make a difference. The cost of "going green" tends to far exceed the ROI. That doesn't mean companies shouldn't try but it's tough to justify the costs on many levels.You missed my point, which is that FedEx never misses an opportunity to seem "green" when having a huge fleet of vehicles and airplanes is probably the least green thing on the planet short of the BP spill. I applaud FedEx and their solar facilities, but wonder if there will ever be more than 5 locations that have them. Once they've extracted the PR value of a handful of solar facilities or a dozen hybrid vehicles, will they continue to purchase more of them? I doubt it.
The other problem with this is that there's just not enough incentive for business to really make a difference. The cost of "going green" tends to far exceed the ROI. That doesn't mean companies shouldn't try but it's tough to justify the costs on many levels.
Unlike FedEx, I don't claim to be green. I enjoy my 2-stroke motorcycles and my diesel pickup truck and wouldn't drive a Prius if you gave me one.
I drove my dad's prius. Very nice ride, but like you wouldn't trade the Duramax for one.
I'm a Ford guy too. But I'll let ya in on a little secret: any Powerstroke built after the second half of 2003 is a real shot in the dark. Put it this way. If you could afford a Powerstroke, you probably couldn't afford to keep it on the road.Wish I could afford a Duramax...nah, I'm a Ford man. Wish I could afford a Powerstroke.