Check out this video I found on Youtube of protesters against ESSO.
Stop Esso Video
February 5th, 2010Esso’s greenhouse gas production
February 5th, 2010Stop Esso’s consumer boycott has focused on the greenhouse gas production and climate change policies of Esso. Esso’s critics claim the company produces twice the CO2 pollution of a country such as Norway. Company data revealed a 2% increase in greenhouse gas production in 2004 to 135.6m tonnes. Supporters of Stop Esso argue that BP has a similar level of production as Esso with nearly 50% less greenhouse gas emissions. One environmental consultancy believed Esso underestimated its greenhouse gas production because it excluded petrol stations and tankers. It estimates Exxon’s production at over 300m tonnes.
Stop Esso (France) website injunction
February 5th, 2010Greenpeace was sued in France by Esso, who alleged that the company’s reputation was damaged by the campaign’s use of a parody Esso logo featuring dollar signs in place of the letters “ss”.
Esso claimed that the $$ resemble the SS of the Nazi paramilitary organization. A French court ruled in favour of Esso, granting them an injunction against the French website. The campaign then moved their French web site to the USA. Another French judge has subsequently overturned the original ruling, so the site has moved back to France. The Stop Esso campaign
Stop Esso campaign
February 5th, 2010The Stop Esso campaign is a campaign by Greenpeace, Friends of the Earth and People and Planet aimed at boycotting the oil company Esso, known as ExxonMobil in the United States, because they claim it is doing damage to the environment.
The campaign claims that Esso is:
* not investing in renewable energy sources
* denying the existence of global warming
* undermining the Kyoto Protocol.
Esso in Canada
February 5th, 2010In Canada, the Esso brand is used on stations operated by Imperial Oil, which is 69.8% owned by ExxonMobil.
In February 2007, a combination of a fire at the Nanticoke refinery and a strike at CN resulted in a shortage of gasoline at Esso stations in Ontario, which also drove up prices and caused shortages in competitor’s stations (both in Ontario and neighboring Quebec.)
Esso also provides aviation fuel services at 80 airport locations in Canada (Aviation and Avitat).
ESSO in the United Kingdom
February 5th, 2010Esso Blue
Esso Blue was the brand name of Esso’s paraffin oil (kerosene) for domestic heaters in countries such as the United Kingdom. Their TV advertising song from the 1950s through to the 1970s was the famous “Bom, Bom, Bom, Bom, Esso Blue!” A later campaign used the well-known song tune of “Smoke Gets in Your Eyes” cleverly reworded as:
“They asked me how I knew, it was Esso Blue, I of course replied, with lower grades one buys, smoke gets in your eyes. … The non-smoking paraffin”.
Cleveland
In the 1930s Esso acquired Cleveland, an independent company based in North East England. The name comes from the Cleveland Hills. Cleveland’s products included a benzole blend and an alcohol blend called Discol. Both the Esso and Cleveland names continued in use until 1973, when the Cleveland filling stations were re-branded as Esso.
ESSO History
February 5th, 2010In 1911, Standard Oil was broken up into seven regional companies, each with the rights to the brand “Standard” in certain states (plus a number of other companies that had no territorial rights). Standard Oil of New Jersey (”Jersey Standard”) had the rights in that state, plus in Maryland, West Virginia, Virginia, North Carolina, South Carolina, and the District of Columbia. By 1941, it had also acquired the rights in Pennsylvania, Delaware, Arkansas, Tennessee, and Louisiana. In those states, it marketed its products under the brand “Esso”, the phonetic pronunciation of the letters “S” and “O”. It also used the Esso brand in New York and the six New England states, where the Standard Oil Company of New York (Socony – Vacuum, later Socony – Mobil)) had the rights, but did not object to the New Jersey company’s use of the trademark (the two companies did not merge until 1998). However, in the other states, the other Standard Oil companies objected and forced Jersey Standard to use other brand names. In most states the company used the trademark “Enco”, and in a few “Humble”. The other Standard companies likewise were “Standard” or some variant on that in their home states, and another brand name in other states.
This situation was confusing to travelers. In 1973, Standard Oil of New Jersey renamed itself as the Exxon Corporation, and adopted that trademark throughout the country. It however maintained the rights to “Standard” and “Esso” in the states where it held those rights, by a token effort, by selling “Esso Diesel” in those states at stations that sell diesel fuel, thus preventing the trademark from being declared abandoned. It retained the “Esso” brand in Puerto Rico and the United States Virgin Islands until 2008, when it sold its stations there to Total S.A. The ENCO brand name was still used on locations in the Midwest, which were scheduled for abandonment.
Stop ESSO War
January 23rd, 2010Esso is an international trade name for ExxonMobil and its related companies. Pronounced /ˈɛsoʊ/ (”S-O”), it is derived from the initials of the pre-1911 Standard Oil, and as such became the focus of much litigation and regulatory restriction in the United States. In 1973, it was largely replaced in the U.S. by the Exxon brand, while Esso remained widely used elsewhere. In most of the world, the Esso brand and the Mobil brand are the primary brand names of ExxonMobil, with the Exxon brand name still in use only in the United States alongside Mobil.
