2006 March at Oil Change

Archive for March, 2006

Truth in Advertising

1 Comment Published by Steve Kretzmann March 29th, 2006 in Oil

Check this out. Apparently Chevy is running an online contest to design a new ad - and hasn’t gotten around to censoring the entries yet…

Feeling Peckish? How Your Breakfast Fuels Our Oil Addiction

1 Comment Published by Andy Rowell March 29th, 2006 in Oil, Pollution, Sustainability

Great article on Alternet today by Chad Heeter about the amount of fossil fuels needed to make your average breakfast. According to Heeter “an average of over seven calories of fossil fuel is burned up for every calorie of energy we get from our food. This means that in eating my 400 calorie breakfast, I […]

BP and DuPont Are Top in First-Ever Ranking of Companies on Climate Change

0 Comments Published by Andy Rowell March 29th, 2006 in Climate Change, Oil, Public Relations

In the first ever ranking of the Top 100 companies, BP and DuPont have come out as top “leaders” for their climate change strategies. Not surprisingly ExxonMobil is seen as a “laggard”.

Blair’s “Toothless Sop” to Bush On Climate

0 Comments Published by Andy Rowell March 29th, 2006 in Climate Change, Oil, Politics

Tony Blair has been accused of caving in to American pressure by proposing a new “watered-down” replacement for the Kyoto Protocol that relies on new technology rather than binding emission cuts as the solution to climate change.

Climate Change - Have Your Say

0 Comments Published by Andy Rowell March 29th, 2006 in Climate Change, Oil, Politics

Yesterday, The Independent newspaper in the UK did something rather amazing - it asked it’s readers for their views. Rather than giving readers the usual dose of opinion from the great and the good, the paper asked for the opinion of its readers. And they asked it on the most pressing issue of all: Climate […]