Nonetheless, most of us will be buying gas at least occasionally, and for many of us, we do it all the time. And gas is a very unique purchase in many ways-- we typically have almost no brand loyalty and often a lot of options. So it's worth exploring what the social and environmental implications are of the brands we choose.
This is going to be a multi-part guide, since there is a ton of information I've found to share, but we'll start with the impact these gas companies have on the environment. There are a lot of information and rankings out there, which I tried to compile for you in one place. (Let me know if you know of more for me to add!) So without further ado:
Specific Environmental Issues/Areas
Corporate Governance and Climate Change rankings from Ceres:
- BP: 90 (out of max 100)
- Royal Dutch Shell: 79
- Statoil: 72
- Total: 62
- Chevron: 57
- Anadarko and Sunoco: 39
- Amerada Hess, ConocoPhillips and ExxonMobil: 35
- Less than 35:
- Marathon (26), Occidental (25), Valero (24), Apache (22), Tesoro(15), Burlington (13), Devon Energy (11), El Paso (9), Murphy Oil (6), Williams (3)
- High performance: BP, Shell, Suncor
- Low performance: Burlington, Marathon, ExxonMobil
- #3: Conoco-Phillips
- #6: Exxon-Mobil
- #22: Tesoro
- #28: Valero
- #55: Sunoco
- #64: Chevron
- #81: Amarada Hess
- #84: Marathon
- Sunoco: +40%
- Chevron: +18%
- Citgo: +17%
- Conoco Phillips: 0
- Total: 0
- BP: -10%
- ExxonMobil: -33%
- Shell: -43%
Overall Environmental Ratings
Innovest's EcoValue21 rating (AAA best, CCC worst):
- Shell: AAA
- BP: AA
- Suncor: AA
- Marathon: B
- Nexen: 7.6
- Petro-Canada: 6.3
- EnCana: 5.4
- Suncor, Shell Canada, Syncrude, Imperial Oil: 5.0
- Talisman: 4.9
- Husky: 4.0
- Canadian Natural Resources: 3.0
- Top of the Barrel
- Sunoco
- BP
- Middle of the Barrel
- Citgo
- Valero ie Corner Store/Shamrock/Ultramar/Stop N Go/Beacon
- Chevron/Texaco
- Shell
- Bottom of the Barrel
- ConocoPhillips ie 76/Conoco/Phillips 66
- ExxonMobil
This is really interesting, thank you! I tend to buy gas from the Safeway closest to me ... have you encountered any info on whose gas supplies store-branded gas stations at Safeway, King Soopers/City Market or Costco?
ReplyDeleteI buy gas at the costco and it tends to be a little bit cheaper. Nice article though
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"It says: Coming up next... a look at the human rights/workers' rights & safety/etc aspects of these companies, and an attempt to sum up and draw some conclusions. "
ReplyDeletebut how can i get to that article?