Chevron's Energyville online game is a sham. After reading today's writeup of Chevron's brain-rotting propaganda play, I decided to try my luck at urban planning and energy management in Chevron's world. So, how did the online game endorsed by The Economist fare on the "ulterior motives" scale? Well... I was already a little turned off by the "oil drop" loading page and the trippy music, but then... My solar panels were too expensive and inefficient, my hydroelectric dam was nullified because of community-level water rights claims, my wind turbines broke, my hydrogen plant suffered from "viability problems", and my biomass facility caused a famine. While busily working to fix my crippled renewable energy infrastructure, a new oil tar sand deposit was discovered and exploited, dropping oil prices and allowing the good citizens of Danieltown to hit the open road once more. The tar sands also spread freedom. At one point, I was served with the ominous admonition "WARNING! DANIELTOWN NEEDS PETROLEUM!" Other people I've talked with who have played the game report such "unexpected events" in the game as cloudy days driving up the cost of solar installations, ethanol tariffs, and hydrogen price pressure. No mention of other "unexpected events" like... Nigerian freedom fighters, polar bear extinction, extreme natural disasters, or $200 hedges on oil. This is almost as lame of an effort at environmental relevance as FutureGen. And we all know what happened to that. We at Greentech Media have decided to play a little experiment. Since Energyville is so clearly biased and damaging to our cause, we are asking all of your help to game the system. You should all go out and play the game, and we will give a free, totally awesome prize the person with the highest portion of renewables in your energy mix. Send your screen shots of the final results page to me at englander at greentechmedia dot com . You can't win if you have fossil fuels in your city. We will, however, offer a special bonus prize to the entrant with the dirtiest city. Good luck - we'll broadcast the results next week.