Why Californians Should Love Chevron
Our State Needs the Big Ruthless Oil Company—and Chevron Needs Us
Dear Chevron,
I will not compare thee to a summer’s day. I cannot say you smell like a rose.
But make no mistake: I love you.
You are unaccustomed, I know, to getting letters like this. Love is usually reserved for younger, sexier companies–Google, Apple, or Twitter–across the bay from your San Ramon headquarters. You and other oil companies are villains in today’s California: polluters, price gougers, perpetrators of climate change. In this fall’s gubernatorial debate, Jerry Brown disapprovingly noted your $21 billion in profits last year and blamed you and other oil …
