That's "eligible spending, " which, surprisingly, doesn't include fuel purchases at a Chevron, Texaco or any other gas station.
For example, Exxon merged with Mobil, and Chevron acquired Texaco in recent years.
With nearly 500 Chevron and Texaco stations sitting on empty, nearly 1, 500 truck runs will be necessary to fill them up.
Smaller outfits like Chevron and Texaco are still playing catch-up.
In 2007, Chevron-Texaco's venture capital arm bought significant stakes in two solar energy companies: BrightSource Energy, a developer of utility-scale solar plants, and Konarka Technologies, a developer of photovoltaic materials.
Earn 10 cents per gallon for the first 60 days from the date the account is opened on up to 200 gallons per billing cycle period of Chevron and Texaco.
With a Chevron or Texaco gas-only card, which can be used only at that brand of gas stations, you can get a 10-cents-per-gallon credit on your billing statement, to be applied to future gas purchases.
But, on the eve of the Chevron merger, Texaco walked away from the offer.
The Ecuadorean plaintiffs first sued Texaco in New York in 1993, and after years of wrangling Chevron, which bought Texaco in 2000, got the case dismissed in 2002 on forum non conveniens grounds.
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Indigenous residents are suing Chevron, which bought Texaco in 2001, to pay for removing pollution left over at hundreds of drilling sites.
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BP-Amoco, Texaco and Chevron, are scrambling for a share of the equity.
In doing so, however, they utterly ignore the fact that they previously have sued both Texaco and Chevron here, voluntarily participated in still other cases in this Court, are voluntarily litigating in other federal courts around the country, and for years used Donziger and his New York office to mount public relations, political and fund raising efforts in support of their Ecuadorian efforts.
Texaco, and later Chevron, successfully argued that the case should instead be heard in Ecuador, which was then run by a government seen as friendly to American business interests.
The so-called Aguinda plaintiffs are villagers who blame Texaco, since purchased by Chevron, for polluting their water supplies during decades of drilling that ended in 1990.
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Texaco, now part of Chevron, drilled for oil in Ecuador from 1964 to 1990 in a consortium that from 1976 on was majority-owned by the government of Ecuador.
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Some background: Donziger has spent more than a decade trying to collect money for Ecuadorean villagers he says have suffered a variety of health problems due to millions of barrels of oil and waste products left behind at drilling sites that Texaco, now part of Chevron, operated until it left the country in 1990.
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Chevron is facing the lawsuit because it purchased Texaco in 2001.
And Texaco, before it was purchased by Chevron, thought it had extinguished its liability by performing a cleanup that the government approved with a blanket release in 1998.
The litigation even outlasted Texaco: in 2001, the company was subsumed by Chevron, which inherited the lawsuit.
The contention is that Chevron was responsible for environmental contamination actually caused by another oil company, Texaco, which operated in the area between 1964 and 1990.
For example, Exxon merged with Mobil, and Chevron (nyse: CVX - news - people ) acquired Texaco in recent years.
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