From Car-Free News
On May 16, 35 members of Greenpeace UK shut down an assembly line in Great Britain that was making Range Rover SUVs. The volunteers cut power to the assembly line and handcuffed themselves to unfinished vehicles along the 500-foot-long assembly line. Using yellow "crime scene" tape, they labelled the area a "climate crime scene." According to Greenpeace, this is the first time anywhere in the world that protesters have shut down a factory making Sports Utility Vehicles.
The activists did not shut down production of the Land Rover Defender, which they consider a vehicle for legitimate agricultural and industrial purposes. The point was to call attention to the wasteful nature of "off-road" cars built mainly for on-road personal transport and which have a fuel efficiency of just 12 miles per gallon. The new Range Rover Sport, says Greenpeace, has fewer miles to the gallon than the Model T Ford built 80 years ago.
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