"we are conservatives, and liberals"
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"We are not corporate titans,
we are human beings doing our share to..."
hah! they conserve nothing and are liberal killers.
Chevron is the world's 14th largest corporation.
http://www.spiegel.de/...
He is poorly clothed, but speaks English that is somewhat understandable. "Please don't believe what the junta says," he whispers. "The repression is continuing every night. When there are no more witnesses, they drive through the suburbs at night and kill the people."
http://www.csdecisions.com/...
After Chevron's recent launch of its new "Human Energy" ad campaign, The Foundation for Taxpayer and Consumer Rights (FTCR) and its OilWatchdog.org project have called on Chevron CEO David O'Reilly to "immediately sever Chevron's ties to Myanmar's brutal government and personally speak out against its violent suppression of peaceful protest."
In a letter to O'Reilly, OilWatchdog cofounder Judy Dugan said, "Your ad campaign, which a Chevron official said would cost 'in the high tens of millions' of dollars, portrays a company that deeply cares about the world and its future. Given your investment in Myanmar alone, that is a gauzy, gorgeous lie."
According to the FTCR's claims, Chevron has a stake in natural gas fields in Myanmar through its 2005 purchase of Unocal. Unocal's 28% ownership of natural gas fields with the French oil company Total was, along with other existing investments, excluded from an embargo by the U.S. and European nations.
"It is surprising that the 2005 change of ownership did not trigger demands for disinvestment by the embargo partners," said Dugan. "Chevron should divest now as a moral imperative."
The letter (available for viewing at www.consumerwatchdog.org/resources/ChevronMyanmarLetter10-1-07.pdf) goes on to argue that the company's lack of support for the political uprising in Myanmar contradicts the peaceful, productive tone of the ad campaign.
http://www.californiaprogressreport....
Chevron’s Hollywood-slick new image ad looks like a public service spot for the Peace Corps, filled with helpful, happy Chevron employees around the world.
Its explicit message that "we’re not corporate titans" would make more sense if the company’s real titans hadn’t just announced a $15-billion buyback of Chevron’s own stock, appeasing Wall Street instead of investing in the world’s need to thrive on less oil. It would also be more believable if the news weren’t filled with images of the deadly suppression of pro-democracy protesters in Myanmar; there, Chevron is the only U.S. company investing in the oil and gas assets that prop up the ruling junta.
The buyback is one leg of a corporate strategy to keep oil-related profits high while avoiding real commitment to a renewable energy future and deflecting blame for misdeeds. In a way, so is the ad.
The ad declares that "for the foreseeable future, our lives demand oil" and gives short shrift to renewable fuels. Yet back in the real world, Chevron executives use the scary threat of biofuels as an excuse to curb refinery capacity.
In an interview with the Associated Press in April, Peter J. Robertson, Chevron's vice chairman, said in response to a question about possible new U.S. refineries, "Why would I invest in a refinery when you're trying to make 20 percent of the gasoline supply ethanol?" Robertson was referring to a Bush administration goal to increase use of ethanol in the fuel supply to that level by 2020—a goal not backed by a program.
Much of the 2 1/2-minute ad that kicked off Chevron’s "Human Energy" campaign is intended to portray a conscientious corporate member of the world family, rather than an unyielding defendant in multibillion-dollar pollution lawsuits brought by peasants in Ecuador and accusations in Nigeria of human-rights abuses committed by troops funded and allegedly encouraged by Chevron.
Its black eye in Myanmar is in the same mold, and was entirely avoidable. ...
http://climateprogress.org/...
Those greenwashing ads are really starting to bug me. "It took us 125 years to use the first trillion barrels of oil. We’ll use the next trillion in 30." And you’re proud of this fact — proud of your role in bringing about the wholesale destruction of this planet’s climate?
Will you join us? No, I won’t. I’m trying to figure out a way to get people to use a lot less of your polluting product.
chevronhome.gifAnd now, "Chevron Announces New Global ‘Human Energy’ Advertising Campaign." I suppose it’s better than the ad campaign for "inhuman energy" that they have been running for decades — though it strikes me as a lame ripoff of Dow’s "Human Element" campaign.
Chevron has taken the equivalent of three full-page ads in today’s Washington Post. One of the ads says, "We’ve increased the energy efficiency of our own operations by 27% since 1992." To quote Clarence Thomas, "Whoop-Dee-Damn-Doo."