Given the high cost and limited range, sales were disappointing. In 1997 GM develops its own fuel-cell stack technology including first fuel cell car prototype HydroGen1. The first mover strategy gave the company the capability to use patents and intellectual property difficult to copy from competitors. By 2000, the US market has matured and foreign competition has eroded the market share of the three domestic players to less than 60%. In 2000, GM started potential working on the interface between design and technology considering three important aspects for the new car: safety, environment and performance.
They had gotten an extra tax break from California’s Alternative Energy & Adavance Transportation Authority of $25.1million. Both of these were given in order to financially help Solyndra in the construction of a solar panel manufacturing plant. This was in accordance with the energy law that was passed in 2005 which allowed the department to issue loans backed by the federal government for innovative projects which helped to reduce air pollution. The organization became defunct and 1100 of its employees were retrenched when production and manufacturing ceased. They explained this by saying that prices of solar panels were dropping fast and production was too costly.
Going Green at an Oil Company Robert Wells Liberty University Online Abstract The case “Going Green at an Oil Company” presented by Spector (2009) consist of Petrobras, a Brazilian oil company, attempting to establish environmental sustainability in the wake of several environmental disasters. Although the environmental disaster occurred as much as 5 years prior to Gabrilli taken the helm at Petrobras, the newly appointed CEO believe environmental mismanagement as well the lack of environmental transparency and sustainability to be bad business. This case study will examine the factors leading up to Gabrielli being appointed CEO and evaluate the success of steps taken by Petrobras in regards to its sustainabilit. Finally this study will assess the success of green policies implemented by Gabrielli. Keywords: Petrobras, Gabrielli, oil, environment, green, greening, sustainability, mismanagement Going Green at an Oil Company The company at the center of this case study is Petrobras, a Brazil based multinational company with its main product being the production of oil from off shoring drilling (Gabrielli, 2009).
Chelsea Carr English 102-Sec 20 Rogerian Arguement 10-20-11 As the world gets older by the second it becomes increasingly apparent that, we as human beings should make some drastic changes in order to reverse the damage we have done to our planet. Recycling is the best example and maybe the easiest way to determine the fate of our planet. Green Revolution states, “in 2009, Americans generated approximately 243 million tons of waste 54.3% percent of that was dumped, 11.9% burned and 33.8 % of that was recycled” (Green). Could we imagine our world if that number rose more than 35%? Recycling is important to me not only because I am a member of this planet, but because I am an avid outdoorsmen and enjoy the small and subtle beauties that the world has to offer, and are and continue to be trashed, dumped upon and burned by lesser more ignorant people of society.
In this situation, it has been a mainstream to use alternative sources of energy. It will be discussed how government, businesses and individuals could deal with the low efficiency of using alternative sources of energy in this essay. Firstly, government intervention is the most important and useful method in solving the problem, it can make policies in using alternative sources of energy, such as tax and financial expenditure. For instance, according to the text ‘Using waste, Swedish city cuts its fossil fuel use’, Kristianstad attempted to use biomass energy instead of fossil fuel, the start-up cost was up to $144 million. (Rosenthal, E, 2010) In such a situation, the government became a driving force to develop this project.
J&L Railroad Harvard Case Solution & Analysis Question 1. Should S&L hedge all of its exposure to diesel fuel for the ensuring year? What percentage of the 210 million gallons would you hedge? Answer: J&L Rail Road should go for hedging, but it is not necessary to hedge all of its exposure as for its diesel fuel. It is because of the reason that, 17.5 million gallons are being just an expected amount of fuel and in future the perfect hedge cannot be achieved.
In the late 1990s, CEO Lord John Brown being the first company executive to highlight the existence of climate change spent over $200 million dollars on advertising campaigns to promoted CSR. In 1998, BP took over Amoco, this was the time when the ultimate downfall developed its roots for BP’s strategy was then to minimize the expenses on fixing the worsening Amoco equipment. In the majority of disaster incidents that followed, assets acquired in the Amoco merger were the major cause. Thus BP’s practice, led by CEO Lord Browne, of buying one company after another, firing employees, cutting costs, breaking safety procedures, pumping toxic chemicals back into the ground, using deteriorating equipment were bound to unravel in a series of environmental crimes. BP’s corporate culture aimed at getting rich and encouraging profits was apparent by BP’s firm commitment to fixed dividend policy.
The Nissan Leaf is expected to price at 30,000 dollars (Winder), which would take years for a consumer to gain money back on it through savings on gasoline. So why would companies want to move forward with electric cars if they are so expensive to produce? The demand on being “green” has steadily increased over the past few years, which may be a factor as to why these cars are being created. When gasoline is burned, it emits tiny particles called soot which slowly poisons the air (Miller 23). The fact that electric vehicles make zero emissions is a leap for clean energy advocates;
Not just that, but I also think, and economists agree with me, that the country could gain a lot in taxes, if the sale of marijuana in general was legalized, just as the tobacco a drug that kills 6 million people per year in US*is. “More than 300 economists, including three nobel laureates, have signed a petition calling attention to the findings of a paper by Harvard economist Jeffrey Miron, which suggests that if the government legalized marijuana it would save $7.7 billion annually by not having to enforce the current prohibition on the drug. The report added that legalization would save an additional $6 billion per year if the government taxed marijuana at rates similar to alcohol and tobacco.”** Basically, marijuana is a preparation of the Cannabis Sativa plant. Common called Cannabis, this hemp plant seems to have its origins in Asia, and it has reached Europe more than a thousand years ago. Marijuana started being restricted and becoming illegal as a drug in the US by the latter 80,s, early 90’s.
This budget shortfall has caused the state to look for ways out. California’s way out of a huge budget deficit begins with Proposition 19. Proposition 19 also known as Regulate, Control and Tax Cannabis Act of 2010 will legalize various marijuana activities, allow local government to regulate these activities, allow for marijuana related government taxes, and authorizes various criminal and civil penalties by local government. The California ballot for Proposition 19 opened on November 2, 2010 in California, possibly changing the fate of marijuana legalization in America forever. The bill failed, but only trailed the outcome by nearly 500 votes.