Nike out of gas.....??
Nike Air Zoom - finally out of (SF6) gas......
Let me begin by saying I am not a big fan of Nike - I do not buy their products (skate or otherwise) for two simple reasons: 1) Almost everyone else in the world (from pro golfers in America to impoverished coal miners in China) wears it so they don't need me anyway and 2) Nike is not a skate brand IMHO - never has been, never will be and I don't care what initials you put after your name or how much money you pay to pro skaters to convince me otherwise. God bless the skaters for gettin' paid - more power to them but I still ain't buyin' it.......
I get a lot of s*** from people who don't agree with my views and that's fine - usually the comments are along the lines of ,"Hey f*** you this is America and corporations/people have a right to do whatever they please".......to which I respond that this is not 100% true and even if it were it doesn't mean that just because you have the right to do something that its a good idea or that I have to agree with it........
And now that I have your attention, I submit for your consideration an abridged excerpt from a recent article in Business Week, which was kind enough to point out that for many years the Nike Air Max shoes contained a super potent greenhouse gas known as "SF6" which at the peak of Nike Air footwear production in 1997 carried a greenhouse effect equivalent to 7 million metric tons of carbon dioxide, which is roughly equivalent to the Co2 emitted from the tailpipes of 1 million vehicles. It took the poor folks at Nike 14 years and "tens of millions of dollars" to finally get their Nike Air's SF6-free. So in a way by paying $150 for a pair of Nike Dunks you are subsidizing Nike's efforts to stop putting holes in the ozone layer, so you've got that to feel good about.....pretty ironic for a company that is based in such an environmentally conscious (and skatepark rich) state as Oregon.
All kidding/sarcasm aside, at the end of the day what you do, what you say and what you wear are a way of telling others what you are about/and who you support - so are you gonna be about this?
www.nike.com
Or are you going to support this?
www.draven.com
www.nicefootwear.com/homenss.asp
www.addiktskateboards.com
"SKATER OWNED NOT CORPORATE CLONED"
Let me begin by saying I am not a big fan of Nike - I do not buy their products (skate or otherwise) for two simple reasons: 1) Almost everyone else in the world (from pro golfers in America to impoverished coal miners in China) wears it so they don't need me anyway and 2) Nike is not a skate brand IMHO - never has been, never will be and I don't care what initials you put after your name or how much money you pay to pro skaters to convince me otherwise. God bless the skaters for gettin' paid - more power to them but I still ain't buyin' it.......
I get a lot of s*** from people who don't agree with my views and that's fine - usually the comments are along the lines of ,"Hey f*** you this is America and corporations/people have a right to do whatever they please".......to which I respond that this is not 100% true and even if it were it doesn't mean that just because you have the right to do something that its a good idea or that I have to agree with it........
And now that I have your attention, I submit for your consideration an abridged excerpt from a recent article in Business Week, which was kind enough to point out that for many years the Nike Air Max shoes contained a super potent greenhouse gas known as "SF6" which at the peak of Nike Air footwear production in 1997 carried a greenhouse effect equivalent to 7 million metric tons of carbon dioxide, which is roughly equivalent to the Co2 emitted from the tailpipes of 1 million vehicles. It took the poor folks at Nike 14 years and "tens of millions of dollars" to finally get their Nike Air's SF6-free. So in a way by paying $150 for a pair of Nike Dunks you are subsidizing Nike's efforts to stop putting holes in the ozone layer, so you've got that to feel good about.....pretty ironic for a company that is based in such an environmentally conscious (and skatepark rich) state as Oregon.
All kidding/sarcasm aside, at the end of the day what you do, what you say and what you wear are a way of telling others what you are about/and who you support - so are you gonna be about this?
www.nike.com
Or are you going to support this?
www.draven.com
www.nicefootwear.com/homenss.asp
www.addiktskateboards.com
"SKATER OWNED NOT CORPORATE CLONED"
posted by BiLlY rUnAwAy at 9:18 PM
