Chevron is the flagship retail brand of Chevron Corporation, operating service stations and selling petroleum products worldwide. Beyond fuelling cars, the brand represents the consumer-facing side of a company deeply entangled in Israel’s occupation. Chevron’s Eastern Mediterranean gas fields supply a majority of Israel’s energy, ensuring military bases, prisons, and settlements remain powered. Each purchase at a Chevron station contributes to a corporation financing apartheid infrastructure and climate destruction.
Chevron is rated High Impact because it is materially complicit in the militarized infrastructure of Israeli occupation. The company’s fossil fuel extraction and exports power Israeli military operations, settlements built on stolen land, and the prolonged siege of Gaza, effectively financing and sustaining apartheid systems.
Environmental harm is also present: Chevron contributes heavily to climate emissions and global ecosystem destruction, while promoting fossil fuel infrastructure that crosses internationally disputed maritime zones. The combination of human rights violations, environmental degradation, and Zionist-aligned state support through energy provision marks Chevron (and its proxies Caltex and Texaco) as a priority boycott target.
Chevron’s harmful impact is intensified by its direct support for military occupation and colonial infrastructure. The BDS movement’s global prioritization reflects Chevron’s strategic role in sustaining genocide and apartheid and makes consumer and institutional boycott both necessary and urgent.
For petrol drivers, there’s no fully ethical replacement for Chevron, but you can avoid companies linked to Israel by choosing independent or cooperatives that buy from smaller regional refiners. The big companies to avoid are Chevron, Caltex, Ampol, ExxonMobil, Shell, and BP.