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Environmentalists and Consumer Unions protest misleading CO2 figures in ads

If you check any European car ad, you will see in tiny letters at the bottom the car's consumption and CO2 production figures. This information is a mandatory requirement in Spain. But, according to Ecologistas en Acción and the Unión de Consumidores de España (UCE), an environmental organization and a consumer union from Spain respectively, these figures are not accurate and could be misleading. Spain taxes the purchase of cars depending on CO2 production figures, therefore it's a consumer's right to know previously what ... Read more →

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