Dax from Relax-With-Dax posted a little something on Twitter today that I replied to, saying that this whole Chevron campaign was just corporate bulls%&t. Because let’s be honest, it is.
We always hear about oil companies and car companies going green, and I see it a lot with BMW. They have their Efficient Dynamics or whatever they’re calling it, but anyone driving a BMW will tell you that it is hardly fuel efficient. Sure on the open road it might do decently, but then again, most cars do pretty well on the open road. The fact is, you don’t drive from Hermanus to Cape Town to work every day, in perfect conditions with no traffic. You drive from within Cape Town, or whichever city you live in, and you get stuck in monumental amounts of traffic. A Smart car does well in these conditions.
A BMW? Hardly fuel efficient. A Mercedes? Hardly fuel efficient. Even with their ‘Blue Efficiency’ program. Remember, if you want to make something eco-friendly, just add in nice colors like blue and green and SHAZAM! You’re saving the world…
Look at the blue and green, look how eco-friendly it is!
And even when they are fuel efficient (compared to past models), they’re actually not fuel efficient. That’s like a fat person of 200kg’s saying they’re thin when they drop 50kg’s to 150kg’s. They’re still fat. In the same way that cars are still fuel guzzlers.
And these companies don’t care. If they REALLY cared, they’d stop selling sedans with 3L engines that basically need their own oil well pumping to sustain them. If they really cared they’d sell their cars with much smaller engines. But they don’t care. Well actually they do care…about profits. I want my car to be fuel efficient in that it uses 4-5litres per 100km’s around town. That would mean something to me. These other marketing scams can please just leave me alone, I’m not stupid. And nether are all of you.
The corporate world always strikes me as odd…with all the billions of dollars that they make, they never seem to make great inroads into improving the world. Because they’re too busy improving their small little bubble of a world. It is always up to the mavericks and the entrepeneurs to come in and make real change. Take Elon Musk as an example.
(On a side, don’t mention this name to anyone as STANDARD BANK CAVENDISH SQUARE. I was there last week asking for a verification code from PayPal on my statement. The teller had absolutely no idea what PayPal was. Astonishing)
Elon Musk is a South African born entrepreneur, who set up PayPal. He sold that and made a good few million dollars. He set Up Space X (Ok, not quite the most planet friendly move) and also Tesla Motors who are way ahead of anyone else when it comes to electric cars. If big oil companies like BP and Shell really wanted to change the world, they could invest some of their billions in electric car technology. They could, but they don’t care.
Because electric cars don’t run on their energy source. And in the future they may not even run on coal fired power stations, they may run on wind energy. And this is not oil, their business.
So they don’t care.
So whatever you read anywhere, in TIME magazine (Where oil companies love taking out adverts) or anywhere else, don’t believe it. Fuel companies tell you that their fuels are cleaner and more efficient, and car companies tell you that their cars are efficient.
Do your homework, because it’s a corporate world, designed to make you feel good (I’m going green!) while sweeping the real issues under the mat (The environment is dead, the oil is running out)
If oil companies really cared, they wouldn’t be pumping oil. They’d be building wind farms and solar plants.
Simple as that.
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Crisis Steve O, I never made you come here and read this stuff 
I just put it out there. I didn’t claim that this post was the be all and end all of writing, I’m not claiming to be the best writer in the world. I don’t blog for a living and sometimes put posts together quickly in between working on real stuff. Because I’m not stupid enough to believe that blogging is the most important thing in the world. I just happen to do it for some fun.
Well coal and oil aren’t the same thing, but they do in fact make petrol from coal. Which you will already know. But I don’t know where you’re going with that.
All I’m saying is that Dax posted something that an oil company said. All I’m saying is that oil companies claim to care, but they don’t. They really don’t. Why do oil companies make so many billions of dollars, but the people from the areas where this oil is pumped are starving and dying? Why do oil companies not invest some of their billions in creating green car companies or investing in huge wind farms. And I’m not talking about spending parts of their money on these things, I’m saying spend a major portion of their disgusting profits on really finding new green technology.
Those sunglasses, I’m a runner and a cyclist. They’re actually Herschelle Gibbs old sunglasses, hence the yellow and green for South Africa. Oakley make the best sports sunglasses around in my opinion and that’s why I wear them. I wore those in the car for that post. What you don’t realise is that a blog is snippets of my life that I sometimes compose specifically for a post.
Steve O, to be honest, I’m not quite sure at what you’re trying to get at here, but maybe you need a lie down and a beer, you really do seem stressed about a blog that really, in the bigger scheme of the world, doesn’t matter. We’re all just here because we want to be here, if you don’t want to be here, my Google Analytics is hardly going to fail because I’ve lost a reader. No ones forcing this upon anyone. However this is what the comments are for, I just don’t know what you’re trying to say (I’m obviously quite stupid)
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