League of Conservation Voters' "I Will Point Out Hypocrisy" Campaign

Leslie Berliant

Have you seen Chevron's "Will You Join Us" Campaign? In train stations, at bus stops, online, even on coffee cups, Chevron ads are trying to convince Americans that the key to ending our energy crisis is individual action.  Over pictures of everyday Americans, taglines from Chevron’s “Will You Join Us” ad campaign read:

“I will leave the car at home more.”
“I will take my golf clubs out of the trunk.”
“I will replace 3 light bulbs with CFLs.”
“I will finally get a programmable thermostat.”
“I will consider buying a hybrid.”

These are all good ideas, but the League of Conservation Voters finds it disingenuous for Chevron to be suggesting individual action as the cure to the climate crisis when their company is engaging in activities that are making it worse.  So they've come up with a few suggestions for Chevron’s ad team: 

Chevron's ad campaign asks, will you join us, as if they are the environmental leaders. It then puts the onus for solving the climate crisis on individual behavior. Leaving the car at home more and changing light bulbs is important, but more significant would be sweeping policy change and a national commitment to renewable energy.

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Needed to be said (anonymous)

Always thought these commercials were really saying, "Will you join us at putting Chevron out of business?"

Written in November 2008

f.m. (anonymous)

spot on.

Written in December 2008

Anna K.

You know what else Chevron could do… clean up the mess they left in Ecuador. They dumped over 18 billion gallons of oil and toxic water into the streams. Today the drinking water is contaminated and over 1,000 people have died from cancer and thousands more are sick with skin diseases and respiratory illnesses.
If you want to find out more about what is surely the largest environmental disaster on the planet, read this blog: http://www.thechevronpit.blogspot.com
There’s also a very good article that appeared a couple days ago on Bloomberg. You will want to read it: http://www.bloomberg.com/apps/news?pid=20601109&refer=&sid=aymV5i.4yp.E

Written in January

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