"I Will Stop Thinking More" — Will You Join Me?

by Don Boudreaux on January 12, 2009

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vidyohs January 13, 2009 at 8:07 am: If the products reflect the intelligence of the advertising campaign, maybe I'll just steer clear of Chevron. Too much danger of flawed products.
Margaret January 13, 2009 at 8:17 pm: I agree. Chevron has not thought this one through.
Mike January 15, 2009 at 12:32 pm: "the notion of an oil company dissing its chief product seems perverse"

They are in the same boat as tobacco.

Big oil ignoring the fact that its customers' reliance on its products has bad side effects (pollution, keeping petro-dictator psychos in power… maybe even climate change) is as bad as big tobacco ignoring that smoking kills its customers.

Perhaps this is Chevron's public relations hedge against oil's version of those lawsuits which resulted in Tobacco companies paying billions to the states, starting in 1998.