Company Incentives for Going Green?

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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these companies are polluters themselves

[dindi]

"If Wal-Mart, McDonalds, UPS, GM, and Ford"

Mod me flamebait, but here is what I think:

McDonalds: industrial killing of animals + crap quality food = bad for the environment and people as well

GM & FORD: yes they could offer such a good will initiative, however they like to sell big trucks, big SUVs and by just looking at their commercials nothing matters for most of their buyers but never used horsepower (or at least that's all I see on TV)

I don't know too much about UPS and Walmart so I do not make critics on them.

disclaimer:
I am a treehugger, a vegetarian and I ride a 250cc bike or a small VW and I felt bad and guilty when I had a 4.0liter company SUV ....

I don't just mean it I do it whereever I can and I have a bad opinion on US consuming habits and their misuse of OUR planet