Chevrolet Allows Customers To Donate Rebates To Breast Cancer

In honor of National Breast Cancer Awareness Month, Chevrolet Certified Service is giving customers the option to donate their oil change and brake pad service rebates of $5, $10 and $25 to the American Cancer Society, Torque News reports.

The partnership is part of a year-long celebration of Chevrolet's 100th birthday on Nov. 3.

This is not the car company's first involvement with the cause. On Sept. 10, Chevrolet took its commitment to the track and donated $200 per lap at the NASCAR Sprint Cup Series races in Atlanta and Richmond, according to a corporate press release. The events raised close to $30,000.

The General Motors headquarters have also donned a new look in recognition of Breast Cancer Awareness Month. The building will feature pink lights on all of the towers for the duration of the month, Auto Evolution reports.

Flickr photo by chriseagle

Comments

[Lesscancer]

03:49 PM on 10/02/2011

Thank you Chevrolet.

A recent report published in Lancet Oncology in this last September - put the worldwide cost burden for cancer care at $895 billion in 2008. By 2030 there will be at least 22 million new cancer patients, and new cancers are estimated to tack on another $286 billion in costs.

Since Richard Nixon’s efforts in 1971 to launch the War on Cancer, the problem has not been solved but rather has multiplied. Nearly a lifetime and countless billions later, identifying and treating cancer has become its own economy. While I am so grateful that so many researchers are looking for the cure, we are living in time of unprecedented increases in the number of friends and family battling cancer or dealing with the issues that cancer survivorship brings.

Cancer prevention rarely gets a headline.-if 2/3rds of cancer is thought to come from outside of the body (as opposed to the 1/3 thought to be genetic) we need to reexamine what prevention really looks like and truly have an understanding for stopping cancer at the cause.

Today we have more cancer than ever before not Less. Cancer should not be an expected stage of life.

Bill Couzens Founder Less Cancer

[Polar Shift]

09:38 PM on 10/02/2011

LessC, we are taking in tons of new and untested chemicals from sources no one is warning us about...we find out LATER that our water, vaccines, air, and GM food (which apparently doesn't NEED to be labeled) are carcinogenic, and PCBs are throughout the oceans foodchain. Now they are engineering farm fish, toxins are found in placentas and cord blood, which means babies are BORN with this inside them, and this is maybe only the SECOND generation with this condition. When I was a child, childhood cancer was almost UNHEARD of, and adult cancer was considered rare enough to be truly frightened. Now, to survive to 60 WITHOUT a bout with it is considered rare.

[Lesscancer]

11:41 PM on 10/02/2011

Thank you for your comment Polar Shift. We at sometime are going to have to choose whats "right" a head of convenient or profitable. Today we have staggering environmental health statistics include 12.8 million missed school days due to asthma or the fact in the last 30 years childhood obesity has more than tripled or the fact that from the 1970's through 2004 brain cancer has increased by nearly 40% and leukemia by over 60% in children under 14. Prevention needs to more than using pink font and putting pink ribbons on fast foods and soda.-or putting a happy birthday ap on your Iphone (which by the way age is the greatest risk for cancer) ..our focus must be on Less Cancer not more treated cancer if we are ever going to make inroads on the war on cancer in a serious way- we must look to prevention as the cure.

[firebirdam7]

11:51 AM on 10/02/2011

im going to say this. they will never find a cure fore cancer. why. because there is no money to be made in cancer cures.

[Waterlooboy]

02:45 PM on 10/02/2011

Can't have it both ways. People who think like that also say big pharma makes money off of selling vaccines to the public to prevent disease. The only way your scenario would work is if every drug company in every country in the world were in collusion.

[Polar Shift]

09:41 PM on 10/02/2011

Waterloo, All corporate creatures have the SAME mandate...increase profits wherever possible. That creates the 'appearance' of collusion, because it IS. This is mandated by LAW. They don't NEED to be in direct collusion, although many are. Why do you think AT&T and VERIZON charge virtually the SAME price for their services?

[Ari Sedona]

10:24 AM on 10/02/2011

I still won't buy this tax payers blood sucked car.

[cinesimonj]

05:46 PM on 10/02/2011

You clearly haven't bothered tom look into the issue beyond ignorant and dishonest talking points.

[khufumen]

10:22 AM on 10/02/2011

Instead of giving to the American Cancer Society, you might as well give directly to Big Pharma and GE. It's funny how the only approved treatments are chemo and radiation while the majority of the board members of the ACS including the president are from Big Pharma. There couldn't be a connection, could there???

[cinesimonj]

05:47 PM on 10/02/2011

What other options are there?
Oh no that's right - it's a conspiracy: nothing to do with every other treatment being quack nonsense - it's just a big ole conspiracy.

[Lin Eberhart Rathmann]

04:00 AM on 10/02/2011

Ford Cares started this great program and never got attention for it. Just like gm to make it big news. but hey, we are all standing up for breast cancer. just hate to see them take the credit for coming up with supporting it first. GO FORD!

[Seafarer61]

01:52 AM on 10/02/2011

Perhaps a nitpick but the first headline leading into the story is incorrectly written. The rebates belong to the consumer, so it's the consumer who would be directing them back to breast cancer research. The secondary headline above is properly written.

[ex-eye-in-the-sky]

01:21 AM on 10/02/2011

Bravo Chevrolet. I love Chevys, & I've owned them all my life. First brand-new car was a '69 Camaro back in 1969. I'm glad we saved such a huge part of our American automobile industry and kept so many Americans working in the Auto industry. Not just at the Chevy plants, but all up and down the car-making food chain. Think how many more people would be unemployed if this hadn't been done. Another thing to bear in mind, is what we've always considered American-made cars...many are not really made here. And many of the ones we call foreign cars...ARE made here. My previous Chevy (07 HHR) was actually made in Mexico. I wasn't a very happy camper when I found out, but I couldn't do anything about it. Parts of my 2011 Impala were also made outside the Country: Mexico & Canada. And then it was assembled in the U.S. I wish the entire car was made here, but its a strange new world out here, and we'll need to get used to I suppose. It makes me feel pretty good to know that Chevrolet is doing something like this to help find a cure for breast cancer. Good work.

[grilledturbot]

12:06 AM on 10/02/2011

Taxpayers are on the hook to lose 12 to 15 billion on Government Motors, one of the biggest failures of Barack Obama. At least here's a little of OUR money going to the right thing.

[Bickerstaff]

02:23 AM on 10/02/2011

grilledturbot, you are SUCH a dork. and you accept jaundiced political blabber as though it were actually history. you're unlikely to rise even to the level of the pathetic.

[grilledturbot]

03:04 PM on 10/02/2011

It is political dear name caller. GM has no money of their own, actually I should say the UAW who owns them now, and therefore every expenditure is indeed done on the taxpayers nickel until that time in which we are paid back our billions in losses.

[cinesimonj]

05:50 PM on 10/02/2011

In other words, whatever partisan talking points, however dishonest or ignorant, become true simply because you want them to be and you can't be bothered actually finding out whether you're being lied to.
It's as if you want to live in a woprld of authoritarianism: they tell you what you need to hear, you believe it, no questions asked. And I'm sure you're feel very safe and cozy knowing that your mind dictates reality...

[grilledturbot]

08:46 AM on 10/03/2011

Well, prove me wrong! You can't. It's common knowledge GM owes us billions. We're set to lose 12-15 billion.

I don't mind if you attack me personally, doesn't really matter. But that's the plain truth and you can try to spin it but math is math and you're looking quite foolish.

[catgirl666]

11:41 PM on 10/01/2011

We always buy American cars. We just bought a new Chevy Mallibu last year and love it!

[windy33]

09:04 PM on 10/01/2011

only in america. you don't see any of the out of this country businesses doing anything.

MADE IN AMERICA

[SLClark]

08:48 PM on 10/01/2011

25 executives, average salary $300k, donate 1% would be $75,000 and they keep their Stock. Better yet. They aired 5 commercials during the Super Bowl, drop one, donate over $1 million...
Generous Motors indeed.

[maxfax]

09:50 PM on 10/01/2011

That's what I'm talkin' about!

[HellBank]

08:37 PM on 10/01/2011

I'm proud of my Chevy. I've even done a few breast exams in it.

[maxfax]

09:53 PM on 10/01/2011

I'm just as proud to say neither me nor my partner have ever bought a foreign car. I loved my very sporty Chevy when I was young, loved it!

[EricaOfAmerica]

08:10 PM on 10/01/2011

At least the donations are NOT going to Susan B. Komen. They're bullies. Go to www.thinkbeforeyoupink.org . It's enlightening.

[Walrus Man]

08:05 PM on 10/01/2011

Everyone tries to make a profit from Human emotions. Women should do something about it because the marketers are using them along with their medical conditions. They should care about the quality of the vehicles they are making, offering and... not selling many? Well, they are selling your emotions!

[dread]

07:26 PM on 10/01/2011

Before everyone gets all worked up about this, ask to see the books to determine exactly what percentage of this money is actually going to cancer research or to cancer patients and what percentage goes to administration and the dozens of directors making over $ 100,000.00 / year. What percentage is going to the professional fund raising companies.
If 20 % of the money is actually spent on actual cancer projects I would be very surprised.

[maxfax]

09:54 PM on 10/01/2011

Those questions should be asked of almost every charity and fundraiser.