Chase Utley Rules

From MLB.com

Utley fights for the environment: Chase Utley's next goal -- after a winning a World Series -- is to make the world a cleaner place.

The All-Star second baseman was affected after seeing Al Gore's movie, "An Inconvenient Truth," and has become an advocate for stopping global warming. He joined an online movement to spread the word.

"Until I saw the movie, I never paid attention to it," Utley said. "It opened my eyes. We're not heading in the right direction as far as helping the environment. I'm trying to find ways to help, and trying to get people more aware. One person can't change it. I just hope to educate people a little bit."

Utley joined a growing list of celebrities and published his thoughts online at www.stopglobalwarming.org. Other concerned celebrities include the Barenaked Ladies, Blue Man Group, Christie Brinkley, Gen. Wesley Clark, Gov. Edward G. Rendell, Huey Lewis, James Taylor, Leonardo DiCaprio, Sheryl Crow, Larry David, Julia Louis-Dreyfus, Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger, Sen. Barack Obama and Sen. Hillary Clinton.

For his part, Utley said he plans to buy a hybrid car that would get profoundly better gas mileage than the trucks owned by teammates Jon Lieber and Aaron Rowand. Lieber's custom-built Ford F-650 gets 12 miles per gallon.

"I don't think we're really on the same page," Utley said. "Maybe I'll show them the movie."

Utley plans to watch another film, "Who Killed The Electric Car?" a documentary that explores the birth, limited commercialization and eventual death of the battery electric vehicle in the U.S., specifically the General Motors EV1 of the 1990s. The film explains the role of car manufacturers, the oil industry, the U.S. government and consumers in squashing the development of the technology.