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(CONTINUED FROM PRIOR POST) Unlike some corporate programs that allow consumers to opt into a carbon offset program for additional charge, we provide our carbon-neutral program with every vehicle at no cost to our customers. This is significant, because our program offsets the carbon produced by 100% of our customers, rather than just a small percentage who choose to opt in.

We don't pretend that our carbon-neutral program provides a complete answer to concerns about carbon generated by our vehicles, but it certainly offers a very significant and additional improvement. For the record, it's an investment that no other new vehicle retailer (or manufacturer, for that matter) has yet matched. Meanwhile, as member of the Land Rover dealer council, I continuously lobby our manufacturer for even cleaner and more fuel efficient vehicles.

Dan Muggli / Centre Manager / Land Rover Portland

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Thank you for today's program. As we have also been longtime corporate supporters of OPB Radio, many of your listeners will be aware of Land Rover Portland's carbon-neutral program. More than three years ago we became the first automobile dealer in North America to provide complimentary carbon offsets with every vehicle delivered here in Portland.

As distinguished from the Nature Conservancy program, our offsets are provided by the Conservation Fund www.conservationfund.org (the nation's highest rated environmental non-profit organization).

Through the additional restoration of native North American forests in permanently protected areas with long term management plans, our program provides CO2 offsets equal to 50,000 miles of driving. Through a separate program, our manufacturer offsets all CO2 produced during the assembly of our vehicles. (CONTINUED NEXT POST)

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