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Wednesday, March 05, 2008

Tesco's final comment on biofuels - but not ours

Dear Gary,

Thankyou for your reply, however the dismissive tone of your response causes me real concern and forces me to question when ever or not you are taking the critical issues that we have highlighted seriously and if the review that you are highlighting has the full support of Tesco's board.

I have asked for nothing difficult from you and have only asked for things that you effectively claimed that you have.

You said that scientific evidence supported growing crops in the tropics. I asked for copies of the evidence. You provided none.

You said that Greenergy asks suppliers, who are all members of the RSPO, to sign a sustainability commitment as part of their contract which can be audited at any time. I asked for copies of the audit. You provided none.

You have now stated that there are some small amounts of Palm Oil in your biofuels. I asked you to quantify what this amount was. You provided nothing.

As you can see, your organisation has not won the trust of the sceptics. I have now simply asked that you confirm Terry Leahy supports the review that you have referred to and to give us timescales for when the review is to be carried out and what its remit will be. This is not a difficult question. You still have provided us with nothing.

You may consider your last email to be your final response on this matter. I can assure you we do not. Our food prices are rocketing and the tropics are being destroyed. We will not passively sit by and watch this situation develop. Protests have already been held at Tesco stores around the country. If you consider that your email is genuinely the last word on the matter, we will be left with no opportunity other than to exercise our rights and step up the protests.

Regards,
Kevin Lister

Tesco Customer Service wrote:

Dear Mr Lister
Thank you for your further email.
Once again, I do thank you for your comments on the use of biofuels.
In my previous replies I have fully outlined our position on this issue, and have also assured you that your further comments have been noted and will be taken into account when our policies are reviewed.
As such, I regret that I have nothing further to add and consider this our final response.
Kind Regards
Gary Anderson
Customer Service Executive

4 comments:

Anonymous said...

If i were an employee of Tesco I would not word such replies with
the patience that 'Gary' has shown. Instead I would deal with you as anyone should who encounters a 'hippie'.

Dear Hippie,

Biofuels do indeed contribute to the deforestation of the rain forest, removing indigenous populations from their homeland and killing off wildlife. This is very concerning as at the current rate it will be DECADES before we can destroy this dangerous, harsh, wilderness which kills 1000's of people a year. The rainforest's in several third world countries harbor dangerous terrorists, rebels and even Marxists. These dangerous killers are only matched by the viscous wildlife that resides in this most cruelest of environments. The native tribes are savages as they haven't been able to evolve to our level of development since all their effort goes into surviving. If there ever were a hell on earth, then the rain forest is it. Decades isn't quick enough.

Of course i can make other arguments about destroying the rain forest. How about that removing the rain forest gives poor farmers land to graze their animals, feed their families or grow biofuels. This allows the third world to economically development which benefits not just the third world but also gives us the luxury goods we all use such as soap, cooking oil and numerous other applications that enhance our daily lives.

BUT OMG!!!1!1! What about the global warming that burning down the rain forest would cause? well i have news for you, i have discovered the REAL cause of global warming...are you ready? Its called 'Bad Science' mixed with 'A Sensationalist media'those two things alone are harmless unless mixed with 'Bored naive morons'. The Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory has proved that the rain forest actually can cause global warming to such a degree that it cancels out any cooling that photosynthesis provides.

But im sure you can provide a bunch of research institutes who say otherwise. The same institutes that rely on 'Global Warming!' for their research grants, 'Saving' the world is big business in the science industry. So they would all be in danger if they accepted that of all the greenhouse gases in our atmosphere, CO2 makes up 0.038%, 1% of which is man made. You don't need a degree then to see that man made global warming is, to put it harshly, bollocks.

But im sure you can provide a bunch of documentaries and important people who disagree. The same people who win awards, money and fame forselflessly 'Saving' the planet. I speak of course of 'A Convenient Lie' in which a British court ruled there was 9 major inaccuracies in it, I mean how can a film claim that co2 increases lead to a temperature increase when the very graph shows the exact opposite, THE EXACT OPPOSITE!

But im sure you can provide a cartload of ignorance and closed mindedness that will rebut any arguments that a cross section of scientists and institutes can provide. And so hippie, i say screw you. You would rather we all live in the stone age than enjoy all the glories 21st century life has to offer. If you love the rain forest so much then go and live their yourself and see how you like it when your being kidnapped, cannibalized and poisoned. I hope to god that companies like Tesco remember that its customers come first and listening to hippies is at the bottom of the list.

[Read here if your skipping to the bottom]Marxism is dead, Green is the new Red. Go Capitalism!!!


p.s. I provide a bunch of references for you to whine over.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rainforest_Schmainforest
https://publicaffairs.llnl.gov/news/news_releases/2005/NR-05-12-04.html
http://www.newparty.co.uk/articles/inaccuracies-gore.html
and so and so forth...

p.p.s Feed the world with GM Crops. More bang for your buck!

Yours Sincerely

Fred Speer

Anonymous said...

Who is this ignoramus, Fred Speer?

Anonymous said...

I dont know but i hear that he is one handsome cool kid.

Anonymous said...

Cool and handsome maybe, but also prity damn thick. If the best source of information he can quote is an extract from South Park and he can not tell the difference between a tropical rain forest and a temperate region forest, it kind of confirms to me that he is somewhat limited when it comes to brain cell count.