99.999999% of us need to buy gas . Is there one oil company that is more enviormentally progressive or are they all a bunch of corporate sluts not caring at all about the earth or the implications of continuing to burn oil ?
2006-07-06 12:40:54 · 8 answers · asked by getaway 2 in Environment
BP and Shell both make solar panel to generate electicity, which is about a green an activity as you can get. My perception is that BP is the ... well it is hard to call any oil company "green" ... let's just say the least "black".
2006-07-06 13:53:19 · answer #1 · answered by Engineer 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
The least green, are those companies that belong to countries of the Third World. Reason: Less mony for investment and need for more money for spending by their regional goverment.
On the other hand, the big companies from US and Europe, each one of them know that:
1) for their survival they need to be "GREEN"
2) the oil's prices, has ignite the search for a sustitution of oil, a alternaive energy that should be more cheaper... and by reason 1) more GREEN.
3) All of the big companies are investing in technology to support new energy sources, and trying to be more green.
4) They are also investing to work with the environment, and to try to be more friendly with it, specially with it's souroungings.
5) I agree, that the oil companies, are doing the changes needed to be totally green very slowly,.
But, I think that instead of asking about the oil companys, you should ask about the automobile industry, to name one of the big consumers of oil:
why isn't the automobile industry, making advances to change the motor's, we have been using for so long?
Why are'nt they increasing the milege per gallon?
Why aren't they ..... and there you go on and on.
The PEOPLE want the oil product (and it's derivate) and they want to buy the oil product. And that's why the Oil companies are in business to produce the products that people want. So, if the group that uses the resources doesn't change ... then the group that produce the resources doesn't see the need to change in a quicker manner..
2006-07-06 20:26:16 · answer #2 · answered by gospieler 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Jared Diamond (the Guns, Germs and Steel author), in his newer book, Collapse, gets into corporate behavior of mining, oil, and lumber companies. And finds that there are differences. Consumer boycotts of conflict diamonds was mostly successful and Exxon was (and is) hurt by the Exxon Valdez spill and their refusal to pay the punitive damage awards as more and more of the claimants die off because some individuals avoid their branded service stations.
Some multinationals keep their nose clean because good housekeeping in, say, Indonesia, may be necessary locally, but a good track record is necessary if the Norwegians are going to let you drill off their coast.
Transparency seems to help.
-David in Alaska
2006-07-07 04:25:32 · answer #3 · answered by David in Kenai 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Both oil companies, BP and Shell, have been pressing ahead with various kinds of bio-diesel projects, spurred on by European Community demands that 5% of all vehicle fuel should come from carbon-free sources.
BP has joined forces with one of Europe's biggest food groups to build what they claim will be Britain's largest green petrol plant. BP, Associated British Foods and the US chemical group Du Pont say the biobutanol facility at Wissington, Norfolk, will help use up agricultural surpluses and prepare for government-imposed targets on greener fuels.
2006-07-06 19:49:17 · answer #4 · answered by RebelYelln10ac 1 · 0⤊ 0⤋
NONE. Terms are mutually exclusive.
They are just a bunch of corporate sluts (your term), walking hand in hand with auto companies and our current government. Any expansion into other areas of energy generation is purely driven by profit motive (or of course) due to government handouts (research dollars, subsidies, and tax breaks).
A great example is when BP took over Siemens manufacturing of solar panels. Amazingly within months of of the acquisition, the price of the panels increased dramatically.
2006-07-06 23:44:09 · answer #5 · answered by Jimmy J 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
BP is also looking at butonol (butyl alcohol) as a replacement for gasoline; it has 90% of the energy of gasoline and can be made from sugar beets. It is also not hygroscopic so it won't be affected by water like methanol, ethanol, and isoproply alcohols are.
Plus, BP/Amoco has the greenest signs out there! :^)
2006-07-06 21:57:19 · answer #6 · answered by cat_lover 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
You answered your own question. I mean, who would go into business depleting a resourse which will soon run out, and would damage the environment. You gotta be a just selfish to pass on your problem another generation.
2006-07-06 19:46:05 · answer #7 · answered by vinny 1 · 0⤊ 0⤋
the oil company named "the green oil company"
2006-07-06 21:19:19 · answer #8 · answered by ? 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋