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...Southie community, where everybody is related in some way to everybody else and gossip quickly spreads from stoop to stoop, means breaking the protective ties of familiarity, of entrenched tradition and overcoming the fear of the unknown. Only faith in a better life elsewhere will provide enough spark to fuel their departure...
What happens to a corporation when environmental concerns overlap with good public relations? You get the latest Beltway love match: Ford Motor Company and the Sierra Club. It seems that ever since the giant automaker began investigating ways to entice green-minded consumers by improving the fuel efficiency of their gas-guzzling sport utility vehicles (beyond the requirements established by federal lawmakers), the company's become something of a poster child for corporate responsibility - and a darling of the environmental movement, members of which are pointing to Ford's latest maneuvers as a sign that the very dirty car industry...
Keep in mind, of course, that environmental lobbyists with an eye on Detroit have had a frustrating decade; they're ready to embrace just about any progress with open arms. For years now, their concerns have been ignored by auto executives who insisted there was no way to improve fuel efficiency and still give consumers the cars they want. The rise of sport utility vehicles only served to exacerbate the tensions between the industry and its fiercest detractors. But now that Ford, ironically once one of the movement's most hated adversaries (think of the Expedition), has made good...
...Europe, where gas prices are higher than in the U.S. [NATION, July 3], people deal with the situation by driving cars that are more fuel efficient. If people in America don't want to pay so much for gas, then they should quit buying gas-guzzling sport-utility vehicles and stop polluting the air. ADAM LEVINE Los Angeles...
That became clear last week on the other coast, when officials from New York City's utility Con Ed disclosed that bills in the Big Apple will probably be 30% higher than last year's, thanks to rising fuel costs and an increasingly tight energy supply in the region. Coming a week after a brief blackout knocked out 140 customers on Manhattan's tony Upper East Side--and a year after a major one crippled an entire Washington Heights neighborhood for 19 hours--the admission further sullied Con Ed's bad reputation. John Dyson, chairman of Mayor Rudy Giuliani...