Tell the Car Companies You Want to See Clean Cars, Not Pinkwashed Ones

Pollutants found in car exhaust are linked to breast cancer. Yet, companies like Ford, BMW, and Mercedes are asking us to drive their cars to help end the epidemic. If they really want to stop breast cancer, they've got to curb their cars' emissions of toxic chemicals.

Car companies have the technology today to make cars that will not release as many toxic compounds into the air as they do now. Whether it's by reducing emissions, increasing fuel efficiency, or moving toward alternative fuels, there are solutions car companies can implement today to clean up the air and help stop cancer before it starts. 

Join us in asking Ford, BMW, and Mercedes to go further. Tell them we want to see clean cars, not pinkwashed ones.

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Subject line: Clean Cars, not Pinkwashed Products

To Whom It May Concern:

As an individual who cares deeply about ending the breast cancer epidemic, I am concerned that your company's breast cancer fundraising campaign may be doing more harm than good in the struggle to end this disease.

Your company's campaign encourages consumers to either buy or test-drive a car in order to raise breast cancer awareness and funds. The cars you sell, however, emit toxic compounds linked to breast cancer. Since we all want to see a world with less of this disease, shouldn't we be trying to limit the public's exposure to substances linked to breast cancer, rather than encouraging consumers to drive a polluting vehicle that may lead to more cancer cases down the road?

While I appreciate your contribution of funds to support breast cancer organizations, I believe that to truly make an impact in the future of this disease, you have the responsibility to do more. The technology to make cleaner, less polluting vehicles exists today--it's up to your company to make use of it.

Chemicals such as benzene and 1,3 butadiene as well as compounds classified as polycylic aromatic hydrocarbons are released from the tailpipes of your cars. These chemicals are linked to breast cancer. In order to reduce the public's exposure to these chemicals, and therefore help protect thousands of women and girls from facing breast cancer in the future, your company should adopt a few of the following strategies for making cleaner cars.

  1. Reduce tailpipe emissions
  2. Increase fuel efficiency
  3. Create vehicles with alternative fuel options                

I hope that you will embrace these cleaner practices, as many of your competitors already have, and do something that will really make a change in breast cancer--stopping it before it starts.

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Thank you.

Sincerely,

[Your Name]
[Your State]