Here’s some more sound automobile advice from Car Talk: Don’t buy gas at Chevron stations. See article here
Jamie Lincoln Kitman, New York bureau chief for Automobile Magazine and automotive editor for GQ magazine, says Chevron’s “epic despoiling” of the Ecuadorian rainforest is “right up there with the worst in the oil industry’s oversubscribed Hall of Shame.”
“In fact, it may even make BP look good.”
Kitman posted to the popular NPR show’s Web site, where he is a contributor, here:
So if you’re the kind of person who boycotted BP after the Gulf disaster, Kitman says, you may want to consider passing by Chevron stations, too.
The blog has been getting hits; there were more than 30 comments posted recently, most of them like these:
Just one more example of big corporation greediness outdone only by their lawyer’s sleaziness!
Thanks for the info. I’ll put them on my posilutely not to be used list!
Eye-opening. Thank you very much for writing this.
The record, says Kitman, “reveals that Texaco and Chevron have outdone themselves even by the low standards of their industry.” (Chevron bought Texaco, which did the actual polluting, and assumed its liability.)
That isn’t, of course, just Kitman’s opinion. The Ecuadorian court hearing the epic 20-year lawsuit the victims filed against Chevron agreed in February. Chevron, which once wanted the suit heard in Ecuador, now of course wants to move the fight back to the U.S. – just one of many astoundingly dilatory tactics Chevron’s lawyers have deployed against the 30,000 people whose land and water was befouled with toxins.
So Chevron, as Kitman writes, “is back to papering plaintiffs to death, with endless discovery requests hurled at [the Ecuadorians’ lawyer], as well as former interns, associates and lawyers on the case.”
“But whatever happens,” Kitman concludes, “you may want to stay out of Chevron stations for some time to come.”