INTERNATIONAL CALLS TO BOYCOTT TEXACO & ESSO

Stop Global Warming by Switching To Non-American Petrol

It is important that **everyone** acts now to save the Kyoto Agreement. President Bush is a product of the Texan oil industry. He will not listen to appeals to reason - and European Governments will not take action. The only solution is immediate hard-hitting sanctions by the general public against US oil companies, ie Texaco, Esso & Chevron. Bush is scrapping Kyoto because it hits the US economy - boycotts will need to hit it harder.

The quickest most effective boycott is for car drivers to switch immediately to NON-AMERICAN petrol and diesel. *Boycott Texaco, Esso & Chevron and instead buy Q8, Elf and, yes, even Shell & BP for now. *Please forward this request.

*And don't forget to tell President Bush president@whitehouse.gov what you are doing.

Below is a boycott call by the European Green Parties.

THE GREENS/EFA IN THE EUROPEAN PARLIAMENT

PRESS RELEASE - Brussels, 29 March 2001

Bush' climate change reversal Boycott American oil multinationals

The Green/EFA Group in the European Parliament today called upon European consumers to boycott American oil companies until the Bush administration changes its negative stance on climate change policies and takes part in the up-coming climate change conference in Bonn in July 2001. Alexander de Roo, Vice-President of the Environment Committee in the European Parliament said in reaction to a declaration by the US administration that it considers the Kyoto Protocol as dead:

"The Greens EFA are shocked by the US' recent declarations on climate change and the Kyoto Protocol which show an utterly irresponsible and egoistic approach to this global threat. Obviously, the American oil giants are one of the driving forces behind this spectacular reversal of US environmental policies by George Bush, who himself was working for the Texan oil industry. The US oil companies are pushing for a U-turn in environmental policies by opposing any reduction in green house gas emissions. It is no co-incidence that they are at the same time pushing for new drilling licenses in environmentally protected areas in Alaska.

"Europe must stand up to irresponsible US policies by rejecting them at the petrol pump. We call upon all EU citizens to boycott the US oil multinationals, namely Exxon (Esso), Texaco and Chevron. A polite request, such as that by the EU Summit in Stockholm, obviously will not change the Americans' mind. Unless the US rethinks its position, direct boycott is the only Language they will understand.

"Picketing petrol products from the US is a simple measure, which everyone who feels responsible for the world climate can do."

The Green/EFA Group will launch a campaign to boycott US multinationals. The Group has also placed the issue on the agenda of next week's plenary session in Strasbourg, where the European Parliament will adopt a sharp resolution against the environmental policies of the USA.

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION PLEASE CONTACT:
ALEXANDER DE ROO, MEP at 0031-626-436488 (mobile phone)

Press Office of the Green/EFA Group

Helmut Weixler:
mobile phone: +32-475-67 13 40, phone: +32-2-284 46 83 (Bxl), +33-3-8817 4760 (Stb),
e-mail: hweixler@europarl.eu.int
Eluned Haf: mobile phone: +32-497-48 02 55, phone: +32-2-284 1665 (Bxl),
+33-3-8817 2936 (Stb),
e.mail: ehaf@europarl.eu.int
Isabelle Zerrouk: mobile phone: +32-477-31 94 74,
phone: +32-2-284 2742 (Bxl), +33-3-8817 4032(Stb),
e-mail: izerrouk@europarl.eu.int
FAX: +32-2-284 4944 (Brussels),
+33-3-88 241 196 (Strasbourg)

Lydia Howitt
Green National Liaison Officer
The European Parliament Offices,
2 Queen Anne's Gate
London SW1H 9AA
Tel 020 7233 4007
Fax 020 7233 4008