Chevron Promotes Petroleum . . . with Clean Energy Game
If you’ve been scratching your head over oil companies’ green PR attempts, there’s a new goodie coming up: Chevron (CVX) is due to unveil its latest eco PR effort, and this time it amounts to an earth-friendly-version of SimCity. We were recently emailed a link to preview it, and while interactive games aimed at promoting energy education already exist, we couldn’t resist getting a glimpse of how an oil company would use a game to promote clean energy. The company will officially launch the free, online game on Sept. 5.
“Welcome to Energyville” reads the game’s intro. The year is 2007, and it’s up to the player to allocate funds to energy-generation plants, ranging from traditional coal to biomass, solar, and wind. The goal? Build an energy economy that keeps the city powered through 2030, without destroying the environment — or the municipal budget. The game tries to highlight the complexities of being “prosperous and secure” while also “living in a clean environment.”
We named our city “Earth2Tech City” and, with a slight eye roll, prepped for play. To Chevron’s credit, it turns out that the game, which was done in collaboration with The Economist Group, is an easy-to-use and well-designed educational tool that provides an overview of the clean and unclean ways we can power our cities in the coming decade, all while looking at economic viability and safety challenges along the way.
In addition to laying out the challenges and opportunities for different types of power generation, our city (which, graphics-wise, looks more like a suburb that popped up in the middle of nowhere, with a lone car driving around its deserted streets) also has little clickable info boxes on its various buildings that detail how much power each type of energy-hogging facility needs, from commercial buildings to transportation. When that need is met, the info box gets a check mark, and the player can pat his or herself on the back for a job well done.
Thanks to in-game stats by the analyst and research firm Economist Intelligence Unit, we were inundated with stats at every turn while we drag-and-dropped various types of energy-generating plants into our miniature city.
In the end, though, after we decorated the screen with solar, hydro, and wind plants, we forgot to include one thing: petroleum. And Chevron didn’t want us to forget that! We got a warning message: “Earth2Tech City needs petroleum.” The company clearly wants to make sure we know that petroleum-based fuels will remain necessary well into the future, even though alternative fuels need to be part of the picture. Very true, though we’re not sure why we had to play an entire game to figure that one out.
Click back on this post on Sept. 5, and we’ll add a link to the game if you want to check it out.
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I got on also said I won $350,000
winning # ct097886xn
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thanks for your attention.
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i received an SMS telling me I have won R755 000 on 2008/08/14. Contact details on the message (cell-numbers) are always on voice mail. What is going on?
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I received an SMS on 2008/09/10 telling me I have won R755000.
Looks like a scam to me.
hi guys ,irecieved the same e-mail about and asking me about info,is this really scam ?
my daughter received sms stating you have won R755 000. i phoned and was told to deposit the amount of R1750 into an FNB account in the name of SM SELEBE. lucky for me i search the website just in time to read about this scam. the sms said to call “william smit” to claim your prize. according to the person i spoke to, the amount of R1750 was to register in order to get your prize on the same day he also suggested that i make use of Shoprite Moneymarket to pay the money and this will insure that i get the winning money on the same day. my husband has reported this to our local SAPS who will investigate this matter, because they are also aware of this scam, atleast now they have a bank account number and name to investigate.
To people who fooled by this scamers. There are no lottery price if you know you don’t know any,..they are just using people to get money…We are all educated here.We know that people are fooling us. So please try to think before believing in there foolishness.
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CHEVRON OIL/PETROLEUM 2008
[address/email]
This is to inform you that you have won a
prize money of Nine Hundred
Thousand United States Dollars,
($900,000.00) for this year 2008 Lottery
promotion which is organized by CHEVRON
OIL/PETROLUEM 2008. CHEVRON
OIL/PETROLUEM 2008, collects all the email
addresses of the people that
are active online, among the millions that
subscribed to the Internet.we
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winners through electronic
balloting System without the winner
applying,we congratulate you for
being one of the people selected.
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Batch number………………..[private!]
Ref number………………….[just in case!]
Winning number……………[I MIGHT be a winner?!]
KINDLY PROVIDE TO US THE FOLLOWING:
[contact info]
Regards
Ali Yusuf
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promotion which is organized by CHEVRON OIL/PETROLUEM 2008.
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Reff number………………….CT 095447XN
Winning number……………CT 097886XN
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Name………….
phone number……..
country………
state………
sex………
accupation……..
address………..
Tel: +234-703-713-5586
E-mail: chevclaims@live.com
Yours faithfully,
AUSTIN MARK
I recieved two emails like this, both from different email addresses
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Yesterday I received this emial…. similar to another one above
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Head Office
8, Macarthy Street,
P.M.B Box 166
Abuja, Nigeria.
Call us @:+2348032210533
Email:chevronoil_petroleumonlinebonanz@yahoo.com.hk
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Thousand United States Dollars,($700,000.00) for this year 2008 Lottery
promotion which is organized by CHEVRON OIL/PETROLUEM 2008. CHEVRON
OIL/PETROLUEM 2008, collects all the email addresses of the people that
are active online, among the millions that subscribed to the Internet.we
only select five people every Year as our winners through computallized
electronic balloting System without the winner applying, we congratulate
you for being one of the people selected.
These are your identificationnumbers:
Batch number………………..CT 091026XN
Ref number………………CT 095447XN
Winning number……………CT 097886XN
KINDLY PROVIDE TO US THE FOLLOWING:
1. Full name:………….
2. Contact Address: …………
3. Age:…………..
4. Telephone Number:…………
5. Sex: ……. ..
6. Occupation: …………
7.Nationality:………..
8.Country:………
These numbers fall within your Location
file, you are requested to contact the events manager/Claims Department,
send your winning identification numbers to him,to enable him verify your
Email:chevronoil_petroleumonlinebonanz@yahoo.com.hk
claims.Regards
Ali Yusuf
CHEVRON OIL/PETROLEUM COMMISSION
Abuja (Regional Office-North)
Plot 698, Zone B3,
Off Jelowo Idris Road,
abdul District,
Abuja.Nigeria
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winner of our CHEVRON ONLINE BONANZA.So all you have to do,
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identity of our luky winner.you have to quickly at fast as
possible,once again CONGRATULATION.
Draw (#385)
Date: 29TH-August 2008.
Ticket Number:234867009 with a
Serial Number 80074/09
Winning numbers: 04, 08, 20, 05, 27, 16 (BONUS.20)
Amount: $7,500,000.00 USD
So your mailings are much needed,
Yours faithfully,
Mr: Ali Yusuf.
Services Manager,
Payment and Release order Department,
CHEVRON LOTTERY CLAIMS PROCESSING AGENT.
Federal Capital City,
Abuja.Nigeria
Email:mr_ali_yusuf64@yahoo.com.hk
Call Me @:+23480-7406-9978
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Hay peoples I gor the exact same one of $700,000USD
for being the 2008 winner!! Looks there are quite a few 2008 winners. This company must be veeeeery profitable, pity they don’t spend some of that money improving their English, LOL.
Don’t even waste your time replying.
Have a safe day allllll
This is to inform you that you have won a prize of
money One Million, United States Dollars, ($1,000,000.00) for this year
2008 Lottery
promotion which is organized by CHEVRON OIL/PETROLUEM 2008.
These are your identification numbers:
Batch number………………..CT 091026XN
Reff number………………….CT 095447XN
Winning number……………CT 097886XN
These numbers fall within your Location file, you
are requested to contact the events manager/Claims
Department, send your winning Identification numbers to him,to enable him verifyyourclaims
Tel: +234-703-713-5586
E-mail: chevclaims01@live.com
Yours faithfully,
AUSTIN MARK
I got the same e-mail Saturday, I did work on the Bonanza A and B at Dynamic ind. in New Iberia La.
I was really happy in see that I won 7,500,000.00 usd.
But from what I have seen about Chevron personal e-mail, you can only contact them through Chevron e-mail. I am now currently working on the NEMBA project and have a lot of Chevron personal that don’t know anything about this lottery.
So please don’t send any money to people that you don’t know in Africa.
hello i got an email saying i was selected by email and won a million dollars sounds like a scam to me but feel free to contact me through my email and let me know thank you.
Guess what people, I got a message just like all of you got. Mine was for the 7,500,000 variety. I sent a couple message asking for some kind of varification, proof, or something to show they were with Cevron Oil. Guess what? I haven’t recieved anything back fro them. This is a scam, no doubt. I get one from somebody new almost every day. Like the saying goes…”if it sounds to good to be true, it probably is”.
u better go to hell, Mr. Ali!… your promo is a big scam….
don’t be fooled, fellas!
Look I got one also— so if all of us are winners it must be a scam ;cause we all can’t be winners!!
These are your identification numbers:
Batch number………………..CT 091026XN
Ref number………………….CT 095447XN
Winning number……………CT 097886XN
KINDLY PROVIDE TO US THE FOLLOWING:
This is to notify you that your email address has just won you the sum of
$3,000,000.00 from Chevron Petroleum e-Lottery games.Your e-mail
address is assigned to E-Tag number 193.45.24.02 in the Random Computer
Selection System(RCSS) of email addresses. For more details on how to claim
your winning prize, contact your fudiciary agent with the below details
Name: Mr.James Robertson
E-mail:cheveropetlot@googlemail.com
Also contact him with this following information requested.
Congratulations, from the entire managment of Chevron Petroleum Oil
Company.
I got this last message yesterday 25th March. Why cannot someone stop these obviously scam messages?
Great ideas, is there a place to elaborate on this all?