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Plopped my bags in my hotel room, noticed the card on the nightstand and thought you would get a kick out 
of it. I certainly did and ruefully chalked this one up as one more attempt to provide their guests w/fewer amenities while charging more. It ranks right down there with $10/hr. broadband.
Here’s the offending card:
“We are committed to energy and resource conservation. Energy conservation helps reduce the effects of global warming. “If you would like your sheets changed during your stay, we will gladly accommodate you.
Just place this card on your pillow or call Housekeeping.”
And that’s how they get away with ripping you off — under the pretense of ‘taking care of the environment,’ they justify reducing their level of service and still charging you the same rate. And who among you would dare to speak out against taking better care of Mother Earth?
I would, for one. Especially when environmentalism is used as a shill.
Now, putting aside for a moment that there’s factually no evidence linking human conservation efforts and global warming, apparently this hotel hasn’t heard the latest when NASA head Michael Griffin said, “I have no doubt that … a trend of global warming exists. I am not sure that it is fair to say that it is a problem we must wrestle with.
I guess I would ask which human beings, where and when, are to be accorded the privilege of deciding that this particular climate that we have right here today, right now, is the best climate for all other human beings. I think that’s a rather arrogant position for people to take.”
I think that’s one of the fairest, most levelheaded comments made by either side of the debate that Gore claims “is over.”
I was especially amused by the hotel’s “If you would like your sheets changed during your stay, we will gladly accommodate you” line, weren’t you?
Gee, that’s awfully nice of them to offer, don’t you think? I mean since you’re paying for it and all. So, let me get this straight, the Hilton (in this case), in its willingness to limbo its way into appeasing the Eco Bullies, has inserted an extra step for me to get a service that is normally included anyway?
Heh . . . on principle and due to lack of any credible evidence linking their “energy conservation” efforts and its ability to impact global warming — I always opt for the sheet changing and every frakin’ day.
Feel free to join me in the Greening Disobedience Movement.
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By Walter |
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Comments
of it. I certainly did and ruefully chalked this one up as one more attempt to provide their guests w/fewer amenities while charging more. It ranks right down there with $10/hr. broadband.
June 12th, 2007 at 9:40 pm
No matter their stance on global warming, it is inexcusable they would guilt trip a customer, at the Hilton no less though that shouldn’t matter, for a service they are paying for. If it had required EXTRA effort on their part, I wonder if you would have encountered the same card ;)?
June 13th, 2007 at 4:56 pm
So the sheets have joined the towels as environmental choices.
I want clean sheets and I throw my used towels on the hotel bathroom floor as a matter of course.
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Walter’s comments:
Hell ya, Rob! Good for you and thanks for being a soldier for the Greening Disobedience Movement.
I’m not against taking better care of the environment (as I know you’re not, either) but I am against the attempts to bully and guilt working folks into making choices not in their best interests but in the financial gain of big businesses and out-of-touch Learjet Liberals like Gore, Edwards and DiCrapio.
And I’m definitely against businesses charging more for less services, then hiding behind the “green movement” to justify their unconscionable actions. Good to have you in the fight, my friend.