10,000 GM OWNERS DEMAND THE COMPANY STOP FUNDING THE HEARTLAND INSTITUTE IMMEDIATELY

More than 10,000 GM owners, and 20,000 total Americans, have joined the campaign calling on GM to stop funding the climate change-denying Heartland Institute. See what they have to say below, and then sign the petition here:

Tell GM: Stop funding the Heartland Institute
http://www.forecastthefacts.org/stories/gm_heartland/

 

• I am almost 62 years old and my ENTIRE life a GM car has been in the driveway. Please remember that the science regarding global warming is TRUE and I will NO LONGER BUY GM if you do not immediately pull all funding from the Heartland Institute. I am totally saddened to hear you are NOT BEING TRUE TO YOUR WORD regarding making more efficient car for the future. I want my grand daughters to have CLEAN AIR TO BREATHE - don't you want the same for your grand children?
  Diane, Pasadena, TX
• I am a proud GM auto owner, but the support for the Heartland Institute will definitely jeopardize my next purchase of another GM vehicle. Climate change is not a myth, it is reality. Please do the right thing...
  Chris, Austin, TX
• I don't own a GM car, but that makes me a potential GM-car owner, doesn't it? Well, up until I heard about GM's funding of Heartland, it did. What unbelievable hypocrisy ~ certainly not surprising, though.
  K, Pacific Palisades, CA
• I am very disappointed that the company my father worked for faithfully for so many years, and many of whose cars I have owned and driven, is supporting this foundation, now that its many nefarious initiatives have been revealed. I was delighted that our government, with my taxes among others, and the UAW contributed to rescue it from the recent depression, and to learn that it is prosperous and increasing production and employment once again..
  Richard, Grosse Ile, MI
• We need to face the fact that transporting goods and people using fossil fuels pollutes the planet, and has an effect on the climate. Your company, should be looking to find a way to a better future, rather than trying to muddy the waters on clear scientific evidence, that irreparable harm is being done.
  Charles, Yreka, CA
• GM made a positive step when it put the Volt on the market. It is a car to consider when we need a new one. But I don't like that GM is putting money into an organization that is a political smokescreen for businesses looking to avoid environmental regulation. I further don't like that GM is doing this, since taxpayers bailed them out. I don't care what you think about climate change; we do not need our environment polluted more than necessary! The companies who are claiming climate controversy are driven by greed not necessity. If you are with them, than I cannot support your company.
  Bonnie, Dixmont, ME
• i've been a gm buyer for about 20 yrs. stop this wacky support of right wing fringe stupidity. i am currently in a equinox, but i will go elsewhere next time. stop being ugly americans and start being apple pie americans!!!!!!!!!
  Scott, Maple Grove, MN
• General Motors has been kept afloat by American taxpayers through a massive bailout. So it's outrageous to learn that our tax dollars are literally ending up in the hands of the climate-denying Heartland Institute. AMERICANS don't support companies the deny climate change!!! Wise up GM!!!
  Lynn, Athens, GA
• As a certified high school science teacher, and a life-long pony-car guy, I know my stuff when it comes to cars, and to the reality of global warming. I also have received, from the Heartland Institute, two separate invitations to go on so-called "fact-finding" field trips, intended to promote Big Coal and to deny the reality of global warming as a result of burning of fossil fuels. The "field trips" were nothing more than propaganda programs, and they rudely responded to my questions about where their funding came from. They are a contemptible bunch of disemblers whose "professionalism" is a farce. As a taxpayer, I deeply resent General Motors' use of my tax dollars to support the denial of scientific fact, by supporting this bogus, propaganda group called the Heartland Institute.
  Hugh, Hosston, LA
• Inspite of GM's former record as a anti-environmnental company I believed that after the "reorganization" GM would be capable of turning over a new and progressive page in its history. Sadly it seems GM is now a two faced company, displaying a enviromentally friendly face to the public while working to undermine efforts to avert a climate change with the other. Humm, how does that play into customers confidence in what you say about the quality of your vehicles............?
  JACK, Howell, MI
• I am from a GM family, my dad worked for GM for 47 years. He would be shoked to see his company supporting an anti-science agenda at Heartland if he were still with us. But I am and will gladly stand in as his proxy, get out of Heartland!
  Kent, Oak Park, IL
• We're not stupid, just informed, right? You had the money, you're doing good, now do RIGHT by the people on this planet. Big corporations continue to lie, like oil, so they don't have to clean up the mess they make on MY planet. We have always had the wonderful Cadillac and will continue to buy. But we're getting old and issues of climate and health are more important to us and our progeny. We're changing our behavior for the rest of the world to see. You can do that too. Thanks...and peace. Rosemary Schroeder
  Ursula, St.charles, IL
• On a day when GM announces record profits, partly as a result of the support of the US government, it does not make sense to support a bunch of climate change denying pinheads who vilified that support.
  Peter, Olympia, WA
• I cannot in good faith buy products from a company that is actively support the demise of our eco system when there are clear solutions available today for keeping our planet healthy and life-sustaining. Your electric cars are one step in the right direction. Your politics of supporting propaganda designed to fuel the need for your petroleum-based vehicles is two steps back, leaving you a step behind where the world is heading...with or without you.
  Juliann, Charlotte, NC
• Whether a person or entity "believes" in the science behind climate change or not, there is no excuse for corporations continuing to avoid improving energy efficiency nor for continuing to show complete disregard for the environment they are polluting and abusing.
  Shahrokh, Bolton, MA
• To: General Motors(GM) Corp.: This message is to ask you, to consider help on the clean air and climate change, by supporting a clean and tranparency of information brought to the public consummers on this matter.This is your social responsibility with America.
  Steve, Suffern, NY
• I am and have been a loyal GM customer since purchasing my first car at the age of 16. This news is alarming, and I will certainly keep it in mind when I go to purchase my next vehicle.
  Darren, Lawrenceville, GA
• How short sighted can you be? This isn't why we bailed you out. The climate effects everybody and we are all better off with cars that get better gas milage. Meet the challenge instead of fighting it.
  James, Rives Junction, MI
• Heartland Institute is not an organization I have ever supported. We have always owned GM cars, with one exception. I will tell my husband that I will have to think very seriously about what car I own once I want to get replace my van, which I love.
  Elodia, Midland, MI
• As the owner of a terrific Chevy 1 ton pickup, I am appalled that you would fund climate change denial. Especially in light of taking a bail out from the government that you are undermining! Please stop funding climate change deniers.
  JA, South Beach, OR
• I am in the market for a new car, but i will be damned if I will support again a company that bites the hand that feeds it. There have been times that your management team has not made the best decisions for your company. Why do you think that you should make decisions that totally defy science and support Heartland Institute. There are so many other worthwhile causes that you could support with OUR money.
  Gary, Livonia, MI
• My first car was a Grand Am. I loved that car! I will not buy another GM product if you support directly or indirectly misinformation being given to the public. The use of fossil fuels speeds climate change. I applaud your Volt for heading in the right direction, but to give funding to a group that denies climate change with your other hand is counterproductive to say the least. I will be spreading the word.
  Dorothy, Cherry Valley, IL
• Geez, my dad worked 32 yrs for GM and was a farmer on the side. He knew of climate change and was concerned. He also loved GM. If he were still alive he would have been heartbroken.
  Leslie, Big Bay, MI
• I cannot advocate GM to friends when I know GM donates to Heartland Institute whose goal is to supply public schools with anti-climate change curriculum and privatize public schools through vouchers. Please end all GM donations to Heartland Institute to regain your integrity after taxpayers bailed out GM.
  Diane, Camarillo, CA
• Love my GM auto, but not any lies about the climate. Think of it this way: one day, GM will figure out how to make money from this and then GM will be screaming "Climate Change!" from the rooftops. All you have to do is put the research funds in NOW so that GM is FIRST to solve the problem. That's the sign of a TRUE capitalist ... and the sign of what an American company was like in the mid-20th Century: can-do problem solvers. If you need to be motivated by greed instead of good, so be it: use the greed to do the good.
  Mary, Valhalla, NY
• I was happy to support the rescue of General Motors. But GM has betrayed us by supporting the Heartland Institute with their record of spreading disinformation and lies. The Heartland Institute also runs an "Operation Angry Badger" campaign to try to help Scott Walker win his coming recall election, a likely violation of 501(c)(3) rules. GM, by your continuing support, is part of these tactics.
  Andy, Madison, WI
• Good morning. I implore you to terminate funding for a program that subverts science and common wisdom. It was my intention to purchase a Volt for two reasons. One, to purchase a American car to support American jobs. Two, to reduce my carbon footprint.
  Eric, Melbourne, FL
• I know all about Heartland and the Kochs. Shame shame shame on you GM! You promote a LIE that could destroy LIFE on Earth. My son was offered a job selling GM products. He will be interested in this deception.
  Jim, Stevens Point, WI
• I will not consider purchase of your product if you continue to support a climate change denying think tank, the Heartland Institute. You were happy to take tax dollars and mouth that you would be proactive in addressing concerns about climate change. Where are you now? Think about how this kind of reaction will affect you - do you really think this backtracking will help your bottom line?
  Joni, North Ferrisburgh, VT
• I own 2 GM vehicles. I speak with my pocket book and not only find it frustrating to find GM is funding the Heartland Institute, but I am angered at your apparent complicity! Cease your support of Heartland or I will cease support of General Motors - I have a long memory and I DO NOT need you! Cease support of Heartland NOW!
  Bruce, Hartley, IA
• I'm a former GM employee and have purchased 10 or more GM cars. You have no business, no matter how small, participating in funding a sleazy organization like the Heartland Foundation. climate change is real.
  Kevin, Lynnwood, WA
• I own both a Chevrolet pickup and a Cadillac sedan. I am also a scientist, internationally recognized Systems Engineer (INCOSE) that has consulted for GM and a registered Professional Engineer in Electrical Engineering, Computer Engineering, and Software Engineering with over 50 years of experience with complex systems analysis and development. If you misguided sponsorship of debunking climate change is not reversed, this will be a major consideration in my choice of vehicle purchases.
  Darold, Greenville, TX
• I am the proud owner of a GMC Terrain, which I purchased because I wanted to see GM succeed. As a customer with a PhD I am appalled that any money from GM's profits would go to a group like Heartland Institute.
  Keith, Greendale, WI
• it becomes increasingly difficult to play both ends against the middle. the middle is watching. let's drop the frailties that plagued the old gm, and begin doing business in an ethical manner. playing both sides is not a hedge; it is a cheat and a distraction. pick a goal and work for its achievement.
  Julie, West Warwick, RI
• Am seriously interested in purchasing a Chevy Volt, BUT will absolutely NOT buy one if if GM continues to fund climate change deniers.
  Tim, San Antonio, TX
• Especially after receiving taxpayer assistance, funding the Heartland Institute is unacceptable. Depending on whether or not GM continues this funding will definitely affect my decision concerning future purchases of a GM vehicle.
  Joseph, Rogers, AR
• Global climate change (warming) as a direct function of human activity is an established fact. Heartland -- as shills for those who bankroll them -- are to climate science what the Tobacco Institute is to health issues related to smoking (and smokeless tobacco products); in other words, they are not merely disingenuous -- they are LIARS. My family will soon be purchasing a new motor vehicle; guess which automaker will NOT even be under consideration (and we have purchased many GM vehicles over the years).
  AJ, Potsdam, NY
• I am looking to buy a vehicle and was looking at the Chevy Volt and Cruze in an effort to buy a fuel efficient vehicle. I had not realized despite the Chevy lines incredible fuel efficiency that behind the scenes there is an effort being made to deny climate change. If this continues, unfortunately, I may not be able to buy domestic.
  ADRIA, PORT ST LUCIE, FL
• I know your other golfing CEO pals think this the correct thing to do and you don't want to be caught out but as a loyal Buick owner (25 yrs) this is a big deal for me.The Heartland Institute is a shill for Big Oil. I can't in good conscious purchase another GM product or encourage my family to purchase one until GM stops supporting a think tank that cares only for corporations over the needs of the planet and it's inhabitants.
  Cary, Evanston, IL
• I find it very offensive that our tax dollars bailed out GM, only to find that GM is funding a climate change-denying "think tank", Heartland Institute. Climate is real...it is right wing politics that is not real. If GM wishes to make money by selling energy efficient and electric vehicles, i would suggest that you believe in the reason for the need of that product. If you don't believe, the public will not believe in your products. How two-faced GM is.
  Sharon, Valley Glen, CA
• I only purchase cars made in the US. That means I purchase mostly GM vehicles. I have for years. I don't like this move GM is taking. Pay back the loans first. Fiddle in politics later and at the risk of losing loyal customers.
  Michelle, Mariposa, CA
• It is unconsciounable to sell our planet's future for your financial gain. Where will your descendants live when Earth's atmosphere is rendered too dangerous, as evidenced by increasingly extreme weather events and anomalies?
  Louise, San Rafael, CA
• My family has owned nothing but GM cars since the 1960s. We are Michiganders, and my dad spent 40 years working for a company that supplied steel to GM. However, times change and GM needs to change with them: we will have no choice but to stop supporting GM if GM won't support us, and a healthy environment for generations to come.
  Nancy, Kalamazoo, MI
• The American people supported you in a time of need. It's time for you to pay the favor back by funding only groups that make a POSITIVE difference in the lives of people. The climate change deniers will still be denying it as the entire polar region melts. Please stop funding groups like the Heartland Institute...groups who go against overwhelming scientific evidence to the detriment of the planet.
  Julie, Ogden, UT
• I supported your company, not only when teabaggers wanted you to go out of business, but when I then bought a Chevy Equinox (which I love). For your company to support phony Climate Denial Science is Outrageous. How sad that you contribute money to people that hate the fact the your company still exists
  Brad, Saint Marys, GA
• GM Stop your unacceptable behavior, climate science is valid. If you folks don't accept science, how is it you employ science in the manufacture of your products. If you don't accept science, stop using the technology. Sincerely Michael Simon
  Michael, Oregon City, OR
• Consumers vote with their dollars too. Remember how much your financial success depends upon the concurrent success of We The People. "There is no calamity greater than lavish desires. There is no greater guilt than discontentment. And there is no greater disaster than greed. " Lao-tzu (604 BC - 531 BC), The Way of Lao-tzu
  Michael, Brockport, NY
• No one is happier than me that you-GM-are back on top globally. But the real future for your industry is "green " Vehicles in response to the real threat from climate change.
  Rob, WA
• We bailed you out now please don't bail on us . Please stop backing climate change denier Heartland Institute. We do not want our money and tax dollars going to a organization like the Heartland Institute. Thank you
  PB, Carol Stream, IL
• Stop lying and be honest. We all saw the documentary death of the electric car-EV1. Don't be so naive about what the public knows. I own GM now, but won't dare buy it again after the way I was treated.
  Jerry and donna, Jupiter, FL
• I am a current GM owner (Sierra Truck), and I can assure you that this will be my last GM vehicle until I know you have our children and grandchildren's best interest at heart. Your back door association with flat-earther dark ages organizations is extremely disappointing and an attempt to move this nation backward, not forward. Shame on you all.
  Thomas, Coeur D Alene, ID
• I will be letting all my family and friends know that GM is funding the deniers of global warming and that they should re-consider which cars and trucks they buy -- unless GM stops funding Heartland or any other such efforts. Our lives are at stake.
  NYS, Ithaca, NY
• As a loyal GMC owner, I expect the most from this company. Especially when it comes to emission standards that reduce negative effects on climate change. Climate change is NOT a scientific controversy. It is a scientific fact. If GM does not change its position, you can be sure that I, my family and friends will not continue to own GM trucks and cars.
  Sharma, Grass Valley, CA
• The future is a CAR that is either HYbrid or like the VOLT, using new efforts to PLUG IN using SUN costing like 37Cents per mile::Sun comes up everyday, mideast OIL is radical in price. Oil is alos running out, Climate Change is REAL.
  Larry, Rogersville, TN
• It's things like this that have made me a Honda/Toyota driver... that and the fact that Toyota and Honda are more made in America nowadays than GM and Ford... You guys really need to get your acts together and make more fuel efficient cars, bring back American jobs (which means doing what's right instead of what's most profitable in the short term) and you've got to stop the climate change denial B.S., Otherwise I sure as hell will never buy another GM vehicle.
  Sharon, Brattleboro, VT
• I thank you, GM, for what you have done thus far. However, I believe you can do better helping to make cleaner cars & cars that run on alternate fuels whichobtain better mileage and provide less polutants in our air ways.
  James, Sun City, AZ
• Please do not support junk science Heartland Inst. Just continue to show more commitment to alternative vehicles. VW has TDI, GM might learn something from these guys! If you build diesel (again), do it right this time!
  Chris, Edgewood, NM
• Get your priorities right for our grandchildren. Then maybe I'll purchase from you again. My $$ is an important, the best way to make changes. Take note GM this practice is a huge trend to movement to lifestyle.
  Cheryl, Incline Village, NV
• I am a current owner of 3 GM cars. I am very disappointed that you are funding the Heartland Institute. This group has crazy idealisms and I don't think you should be funding them because they aren't trying to make the world a better place to live in. Please do the right thing and honor loyal GM car owners like me and stop helping the Heartland Institute spread outrageous and dangerous lies.
  Jan, Woodinville, WA
• If GM keeps funding these wackos, then you can bet that I will never buy a GM vehicle. I own a Ford, but I hope that Ford is not doing the same thing. Nothing good can come from denial. Remember, there will be no more be bail -outs If GM sinks like a ship, then just call it good karma for the citizens of this planet.
  Gail, Manchester, NH
• Really? The "Heartland Institute"? I've sold my GM truck and will not buy anymore of your products after helping to bail your company out, until you withdraw funding from the Heartland Institute. Denying climate change realities doesn't make the CLEAR facts of science disappear.
  Michael, Santa Barbara, CA
• I had been considering purchasing a GM vehicle this summer. However, in light of this activity by your company, I am now reconsidering whether I should purchase anything from GM. I'm sorry, but your support of this fringe group is upsetting to me.
  Rev, Milwaukee, WI
• The time for deniers to stop their lies and tunnel vision focus on making big profits is right now (e.g., Big Oil and their politicians). These people are on the wrong side of science and history. But unless they're called out as ignorant, our children, grandchildren, and future generations will pay the price of a destroyed planet. Deniers need to be stopped, blocked, and ignored.
  Anita, Pasadena, CA
• I still own my 2002 Buick. I have also owned several Chevrolets and a Pontiac. Focus on building better cars, not distorting science. I also bought a Geo Metro once that got 60 mpg. Where is that car now?
  Bruce, Cuyahoga Falls, OH
• Scientists around the world have been studying climate for years. There is no more doubt about it's existence than the fact the world is round. Yet greed makes it necessary for corporations to continue to deny it's existence. They don't want to stop polluting; it's an extra operating expense they don't want. Hence, buying politicians is cheaper. Politicians are willing to lie for $.
  Kelly, Ocean Springs, MS
• We enjoy seeing the USA in our chevrolet. Please support responsible environmental groups. Climate change is well documented and not controversial as Heartland Institute wishes to promote thru our education system. Taxpayers support you, now you need to suppport the taxpayers who stuck up for you!
  Mary, Muskegon, MI
• I refuse to buy anymore GM cars until you stop funding the brainless heartland institute which claims that climate change does not exist. Please walk your talk and don't be hypocrites. I and many others are watching and will opt to choose other cars.
  Jasmine, Lake Oswego, OR
• I bought a Chevy Avalanche, new. I have been pleased with my first GM product. We were looking at the Volt as our next car, but if I do not hear a different tune on climate change I will go back to Fords. They at least made great strides in their manufacturing plants to reduce their footprint. Stop funding the Heartland Institute with the monies I spent on your car!
  Thomas, Montpelier, VA
• The Heatland Insitute is a biased and politcally motivated "unthinking tank". Please desist from providing any funds to this unworthy organization. We admire your profit reports this month but would not like to create a boycott that would harm legitimate profits
  Rod, Winnetka, IL
• My tax dollar bail out to you, was not for funding to the Heartland institute Reckless moneyed agenda! If You Care about the Future of the Earth and all life, Stop Funding ignorant Climate Change deniers! It's Evil.
  John, Kendall, WI
• We own a GMC van and think it's great, but do not want to help fund a company that has their head in the sand and denies climate change is real. Would hope you would reconsider being part of the Heartland Institute.
  Nelson L, Stevens Point, WI
• As a taxpayer who bailed you out I am astonished you would fund such a blatant climate change denier. They are also part of the opposition to President Obama and the Democrats, and in league with those who called for your liquidation. How appalling.
  Brenda, weymouth, MA
• You're currently synonymous with the eco-friendly Chevy Volt, therefore this revelation will send a mixed message that will do maximum damage to your PR at the height of all the press you're getting for your comeback. Knock it off now, or I'm never buying another GM vehicle, even an electric.
  Martin, Northville, MI
• The Heartland Institute is a bunch of lying scam artists. Their primary goal is to falsify or distort the truth in order to seek political and economic gain for their few pet supporters. I was actually considering buying a GM vehicle again, but I have such disdain for Hearland, that I won't be considering GM now.
  Robert, Charlotte, NC
• What's wrong with this picture? GM is funding the Heartland Institute, a phony "think tank" dedicated to selling out the human race in order to promote the greed of the 1 per cent and particularly the oil, gas and coal industries. What's wrong with you people? Why would you support the anti-human agenda of these greedy opportunists?
  Tony, Des Moines, IA
• I think a corporation whose existence is only because of a public investment, has an obligation not to support fraudulent science and scientific conclusions. I also wish to emphasize that any purchasing support you might receive from me is dependent on your social responsibility, obviously lacking at the moment, and that I will consider it my obligation to make the connections your support of the Heartland Institute requires.
  Peter, Cumberland Center, ME
• You just got bailed out and I totally supported that! Now, you need to be socially and morally responsible by not perpetuating anti-science. Start making GREEN cars: electric and solar powered. Don't sell out to the oil companies!
  Nancy, Long Beach, CA
• I will cease purchasing any products from GM and its subsidiaries until they stop funding the Heartland Institute. I will encourage those I know to do the same.
  Joe, Kerhonkson, NY
• As a long time GM customer I am asking you to please pull your finding from the Hartland Institute. The subject of climate change is a proven fact and no amount of think tank redrick if going to change that. You have done wonderful work with the Volt and other masures to help fight global warming. Please reconsiner you funding of the Hartland Institute.
  David, Bay City, MI
• I am considering buying a Chevy Volt because coupled with solar panels, it will substantially free me of fossil fuels. It disheartens me to hear that, even after we the public, helped GM through a hard time, GM will sponsor such an institute that runs counter to all of what is American. We Americans DON'T bury our heads in the sand, we take the bull by the horns and resolve problems, not push them on to other generations. Global warming is real and needs to be dealt with. GM can be a major player in this or be part of the problem.
  John, Oswsego, NY
• We're planning to replace our two wonderful Japanese cars in a few months. We've been considering buying US thi time as a way to help yhe country. However even we will not even consider a company that denies science instead of improving their products.
  Katherine, Tempereatly Reduce, AZ
• I as a GM buyer of some 8 cars and trucks through the years, am extremely disappointed in GM for funding right-wing think tanks like the Heartland Foundation. They are the biggest climate deniers in the country!! They spew so many lies it is without saying they are a radical group supporting big oil and billionaires like the Koch brothers and others. Please, quit funding these groups and address the climate change with your products like the Chevy Volt...
  Richard, Mascoutah, IL
• The Heartland Institute does just fine spreading misinformation without help from an American company that should know better. Unless GM really does want to help climate science deniers cloud the facts about Global Warming? That would be a shame.
  Renae, Hesperia, MI
• I won't be an owner of any GM product, they lie about climate change, so it stands to reason they lie about any claims they make about their product. We the 99% bailed you out, and that's what we get in return. You spend your profits on the group Heartland, and anticipate what in return?
  Anne, Fenton, MI
• As the heat continues to scorch and the drought continues to annihilate crops and wild life in Texas, it is appalling to learn that you are funding global warming deniers. I urge you to end this practice at once.
  Diane, Spicewood, TX
• If your company wants to fund those who deny the findings of the very same science that spoiled you with the science that allows you to build the cars you sell then maybe America needs to boycott GM products!
  Pilar, Lafayette, IN
• Even though I own my car, I will sell it and guess what I will not buy!!! Of course if you should change your lying and tell the truth about the the organizations you support I might be inclined to reconsider you hypocrites!
  Richard, North Chesterfield, VA
• I am a current owner of a Saturn (which will need to be replaced in the not too distant future), and the holder of now-worthless GM stocks. I am appalled that a company which I've personally supported, and which has been supported by my tax dollars, has been funding the Heartland Institute. I will certainly bear this disturbing information in mind when I choose my replacement vehicle. GM. please wake up and hear the voices of the people who have kept you in business.
  Nancy, Louisville, CO
• I drive a GM car and am committed to buying 'American,' but I will not buy another car from a supporter of climate change deniers! Stop funding to Heartland Institute, and start funding research and development of clean, renewable energy sources.
  Connie, Fisherville, KY
• My first car was my parents' 55 Chevy which I still drive. My first and last new GM car was a 74 Vega. I look forward to the time when I can in good conscience purchase a new clean, energy efficient GM car after GM has stopped funding irresponsible climate change deniers such as the Heartland Institute
  Ronald, Winona, MN
• Gee, I was seriously debating between a Chevy Volt and a Nissan Leaf. In the pro-Volt column I had "American company", bit global warming is an earth-issue. There will be no America as we know it if we fail to protect the earth. GM's support of these merchants of doubt has pushed me over into the Nissan Leaf camp. You're on the wrong side of history. Maybe Romney was right, we should've just let you fail so you wouldn't be able to literally kill millions of people down the road by participating in the delay of meaningful climate change policy. Shame on you and everyone who was and is part of this continuing decision to support these free-market terrorist like the Heartland Institute.
  Ricky, Dallas, TX
• Climate science is valid because it is science. You shouldn't state you employ science in the manufacturing of your products if you don't accept science that applies to other concepts. If science can be backed up by evidence, which global warming does, then it's valid.
  Crystal, Ripon, WI
• As a taxpayer, I helped fund the GM bailout. You are still in business because of me and millions of other Americans. As a GM stakeholder, I demand that you sever all financial ties with the Heartland Institute. Mark Skok
  Mark, Escondido, CA
• I'm shopping for a new car. This matters to me.
  Jim, Freeport