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Company Incentives for Going Green?

Posted by Cliff on from the may-your-car-exhaust-smell-like-french-fries dept.

Greenie asks: "With fuel costs reaching record highs and more eco-friendly vehicles on the market than ever before, one has to ask, is it making a difference (yet)? NewEnough.com is an online retailer of new and surplus/wholesale motorcycle apparel based in West Texas. Recently, they posted a letter to the public on their website about how they've 'gone green,' and are offering incentives to their employees for switching to modern, fuel efficient vehicles (hybrid electric, diesel, bio-diesel...). While the specifics of their incentive program were not discussed, has anyone ever heard of larger companies offering a similar incentive program? According to Fortune.com, Wal-Mart is the largest employer in America. If Wal-Mart, McDonalds, UPS, GM, and Ford, the five companies that Fortune lists as having the most employees, all offered a similar incentive, more than 2,865,700 people would be eligible for incentive to go green. That could really start to make a difference for the environment. Now imagine the environmental benefit of every company in America making this same incentive offer..."

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  1. We do this here at Halliburton by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 2, Funny

    In fact, if you wear a green cardigan on Saint Patrick's Day, you could win a team spirit award.

  2. Ummm... by Otter · · Score: 3, Funny
    Sorry, do Wal-Mart and McDonalds really seem like companies that are likely to give hefty bonuses to their employees to buy a Prius? Good question, though...

    Meanwhile, shouldn't employees at a motorcycle leathers maker ride, uh, motorcycles? Or does "motorcycle" nowadays just mean sticking an Orange County Choppers sticker on the rear window of your SUV and going home to watch TV shows about motorcycles?

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  3. Pffft...Green... by BushCheney08 · · Score: 2, Funny

    Man, I got fired from my last job because of the green...

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  4. Today's work habits are silly anyway. by Ivan+Matveitch · · Score: 2, Funny

    It would be far more convenient to live for ten days at work, working sixteen hours each day, and then take twenty days off, repeating the cycle every month. One could then take twelve vacations per year.

  5. Re:Silly rabbit by shmlco · · Score: 3, Funny

    Republicans do NOT hate the environment. It's a great resource...

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  6. Don't be so quick to judge Walmart... by cffrost · · Score: 2, Funny

    Walmart already provides their employees with incentive to use eco-friendly transportation. By paying wages at or below minimum wage, employees are compelled to rely on second-hand bicycles, hitch-hiking or jogging to work. Better-off employees sometimes even have the luxury of using local bus service, if available.

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