Esso Gas Commercial

[VengeanceIsMine79]

Now Arabs own all those gas stations across the Midwest and some 350 lb American in Shitsville, Ohio is sitting on his ass wondering where the jobs went...The globalists in your gubbmint and big business silently sold out this country to Russia, China, Japan, Israel, and Saudi Arabia...Soon, those 350 lb Americans will be driving through military checkpoints on the highways while thugs with devil/skull tattoos grope their wives breasts and point MP5's at them and their SUV's!!

[Mcnzlea]

I miss Esso too. Visitors to the U.S. from foreign countries sometimes don't realize that Esso and Exxon are one and the same.

[ftsjr]

Who cares about the gas? I want those placemats.

[BBQFanNo1]

The last Esso I remember seeing in the United States was in 1973. Exxon and Chevron quickly replaced all Esso Stations by 1974-75..

[sneakers55]

@columbusmediatalk They used ESSO where they could get away with it. They couldn't in Ohio and all states where Chevron had the rights to the "Standard Oil" name... at least. Exxon, well it means... EXXON!

[stevebullmastiff]

hey there everybody any1 know how much 1 of those tiger heads that go on top of the petrol pump are worth now? m

[87chevyelcamino]

Ive got one of those plastic tiger heads on my garage wall....a friend of my Dads owned an Esso station at the time and he gave him one when they were removed from the top of the pumps

[thefirefighter2011]

how about the enco tv commercials that aired during the NBC weekend news segments?

[MacDragard]

They still have gas stations with the Esso name down in the Cayman Islands.

[columbusmediatalk]

@MacDragard - They also have Esso Stations in Puerto Rico, which is in the United States!!!

[lcvd1]

In Panama we still have Esso gas stations with the oval blue ring and red ESSO letters. The tiger is a big part of promotion. I remember having the the glasses with the tiger on it back in the late seventies. My grandparents used to drink their rum and coke in them. I also had a bottle opener with the ESSO logo imprinted in it.

[Dachshund]

Out here in the Western US, Esso was known as Enco.

[teletubetodd]

Wow, this brings back memories of when I loved spotting the Esso sign and tiger on family car trips! I was crestfallen when the name change to Exxon occurred. And when was the last time a bonus cost 19 cents???

[swami1]

Do you have the Esso 1972-73 commercial announcing the name change to Exxon? It had the Esso tiger knitting a new sign, singing "there'll be some changes made today..."

[BarkingSpider455]

gosh, if only I had 18 cents :S

[lolli6813]

@BarkingSpider455 18 cents was a lot back then too. well more than it is today. more like 5-10 bucks

[HerecomestheCalavera]

@lolli6813 0.19 in 1969 is like 1.12 in 2010 even 0.19 in 1959 is 1.40. Nowhere close to 5-10 bucks

[hudson501]

I believe Esso was Standard Oil of New Jersey (S.O. = "esso"), now Exxon. Forget the scenic scenes on the placemats,  Let's see a scene of a tank farm, oil refinery or Esso gas station on that placemat! Now that would be cool! HA!