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Filthy Brit BP Mounting "Enviro" Propaganda Campaign

Via NY Transfer News Collective  *  All the News that Doesn't Fit
 
...from the folks who brought you Alaskan oil spills and deadly Texas
refinery explosions. BP (British Petroleum, now billing itself "Beyond
Petroleum") is doing the Eco-Act. Puhhleeze.  BUY CITGO. -NYTr]


Copley News via The Boston Globe - Aug 19, 2007
http://www.boston.com/cars/news/articles/2007/08/19/in_california_service_station_offers_fill_ups_of_environmental_awareness/

In California, service station offers fill-ups of environmental awareness

By Jerry Garrett
Copley News Service

What is being billed as the world's first "green" gas station is open for
business at a busy intersection on west Los Angeles' border with Beverly
Hills. The station itself is what is green. The fuel products it sells are
not -- yet.

The station's owner, BP (formerly British Petroleum), converted a gritty
cut-rate fueling station location into what it calls "a lab" for
environmentally-sensitive building technologies. The new station's roof is
comprised of 90 solar panels that help power the station and a
rainwater-collection system that contributes to irrigation of the
station's drought-tolerant landscaping -- a good choice in arid Southern
California. Much of the station is constructed of recycled materials,
including its unique, sparkling-concrete driveways, which include bits of
crushed glass. Television monitors located on the gas pumps play vignettes
about energy conservation, while customers fill up.

Anyone who remembers when gas stations were called "service stations" will
appreciate this station's "Green Team" of employees. Team members offer to
check -- for free -- the air pressures in customers' tires. The importance
of properly inflated tires for getting optimum fuel mileage is but one of
many printed-up, energy-saving tips the team members hand out. The tips
are printed on recycled paper. The paper is embedded with flower seeds
that sprout if the cards are "planted" in the ground.

"Everything here is about reuse," said Ann Hand, the company's senior vice
president for global marketing and innovation. The US Green Building
Council says the station meets the criteria for its seal of approval. A
council spokeswoman confirmed no other gas station has even been
considered for certification. The council has certified the construction
of more than 700 buildings around the country as sufficiently
energy-efficient as to be considered "green".

BP calls the futuristic-looking station "Helios House," in deference to
the company's recently changed logo, which includes a stylized sunburst
rendering. Helios was the Greek sun god. BP wants to henceforth be
considered an "energy company," not an oil company.

So far, Helios House is the only "green" station that BP plans. Helios
House is also unique among BP stations because it is the only BP-branded
station in the Western states. (BP owns the Western Arco chain.) Although
the station currently sells only three grades of unleaded gas, BP is
reportedly considering adding biodiesel and/or alternative fuels at a
later date.
 
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