When Will Those Silly CEOs Learn, Asks Free Enterprise Action Fund

WASHINGTON, March 21 -- The following is being issued by the Free Enterprise Action Fund:

Today Bluewater Network, Global Exchange, Rainforest Action Network, Sierra Club and USPIRG placed an ad in the NY Times bashing Ford Motor Company's CEO Bill Ford for (among other transgressions) not being committed enough, in their view, to the issue of global warming.

For the record, the Free Enterprise Action Fund receives no funding from Ford or any auto manufacturer. It is the mission of the Fund to advocate the rights of shareholders, demanding that anti-corporate and irresponsible "corporate social responsibility" be put to shareholder votes.

"Today's full-page New York Times ad in which Bill Ford is whacked on global warming by enviro groups shows that there is no upside for CEOs who kow-tow to activist groups. Ford has tried to be green -- even wishing for higher gas taxes -- but a CEO can never be green enough for the activists. Greens are like school-yard bullies against whom appeasement is a fool's errand, and CEOs like GE's Jeff Immelt and Goldman Sachs' Hank Paulson ought to learn a lesson from the whipping of Ford in today's New York Times."

   -- Steve Milloy, Free Enterprise Action Fund
      http://www.freeenterpriseactionfund.com/
      FoxNews.com columnist
      Host of JunkScience.com and Adjunct Fellow, Competitive Enterprise
      Institute