Word: esso
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Whenever I have a choice, I buy Exxon gasoline. It started when my family drove through the Deep South to visit relatives during the early 1960s and found that service stations affiliated with Esso, now Exxon, were less likely than other chains to have separate "white" and "colored" rest rooms. Whether that was the result of enlightened company policy or fortunate happenstance, I don't know, and neither do the Exxon representatives I asked about it last week. But that gesture to its black customers made me a lifelong supporter. So it's a no-brainer for me to help...
...after we got the car fixed at this Esso station (thank God, this place took VISA), we started to drive back to Boston. It was around 11 pm or so. We decided to take I-93 because that would save us at least 2 hours of driving. Since the gas prices in Montreal were ridiculously high, we decided to fill up once we got past the border. However, once we crossed the border, we could not find a single gas station open past midnight. So we were stranded in the middle of nowhere without gas. We pulled the car into...
...challenged on their home turf. For almost three decades after World War II, the great international oil companies based in the U.S. and Europe controlled the supply of the world economy's lifeblood. At the peak of their clout in the 1960s, the renowned Seven Sisters -- British Petroleum, Gulf, Esso (now Exxon), Mobil, Royal Dutch/Shell, Standard Oil of California (now Chevron) and Texaco -- ruled with unquestioned authority. They discovered crude oil in the Middle East and Asia, shipped it to the developed world in their own tankers, processed it in their own refineries and sold it through gas stations that...