"By Alister Doyle, Environment Correspondent

OSLO (Reuters) - No car can be "green," "clean" or "environmentally
friendly," according to some of the world's strictest advertising
guidelines set to enter into force in Norway next month.

"Cars cannot do anything good for the environment except less damage
than others," Bente Oeverli, a senior official at the office of the
state-run Consumer Ombudsman, told Reuters on Thursday.

Carmakers such as Toyota, General Motor's Opel, Mitsubishi, Peugeot
Citroen, Saab and Suzuki had all used phrases this year in
advertisements that the watchdog judged misleading, she said.

One Toyota advertisement for a Prius, for instance, described the
gasoline-electric hybrid as "the world's most environmentally friendly
car."

"If someone says their car is more 'green' or 'environmentally
friendly' than others then they would have to be able to document it
in every aspect from production, to emissions, to energy use, to
recycling," she said.

"In practice that can't be done," she said of tougher guidelines
entering into force in Norway from October 15.

Doug wrote:

Nothing.

Cut 'n paste, no original comment or argument, as usual.

On 15 Oct, 07:31, Dogpoop hotpop.com> wrote:

Well I could have added, "You see, I told you so about the car
greenwash."

Typically you yourself have nothing useful to add about this newsitem.

Doug (jagmad@riseup.net) gurgled happily, sounding much like they were
saying :

Yes, you could. And it would have been just as insightful and original as
the comment you actually posted.

He didn't start the thread, a scant couple of days after trying to give the
group a lesson on netiquette...

Doug wrote:

Which is why you see statements like 'so it's kinder on the environment,
too', 'greenER', 'cleanER' etc. when they're advertising e.g. washing
powder. The marketing companies will find a way to work within the
guidelines and make it sound 'greener'.

"Doug" riseup.net> wrote in message
news:1192428610.007888.299730@e9g2000prf.googlegroups.com...

More cut and paste.

When are you going to deal with questions and points already raised before
starting new threads?

"Doug" riseup.net> wrote

In what part of the U.K. is Norway?

--

Regards, Vince.

"It was a slight exaggeration on my part" -Doug Bollen
(Having described a person convicted of petrol-bombing, assault, grave
robbing and firearm offences as "having been jailed for sending a letter")

Adrian wrote:

Doug wrote:

Instead you added nothing.

Something about advertisements in Norway have little interest to me and
don't appear to me to be newsworthy.

On Oct 15, 8:58 am, "Knight Of The Road" hotmail.com>
wrote:

Ssh, only Doug is allowed to dismiss arguments by saying the source
isn't in the UK.
Remember one rule for Doug, one rule for someone else.

And I believe he still owes me an apology. And I'm not the only one.

Fod