Subj : Re: Circle K Gasoline
To   : JOE MACKEY
From : NANCY BACKUS
Date : Wed Nov 20 2019 11:36:00

-=> Quoting Joe Mackey to Ed Vance on 11-11-19  08:26 <=-

 JM> Ed wrote --
 > When I started driving in 1965 I bought gas at a Pan-Am Station.
 > Later they became AMOCO, later the name changed to Standard.
 > I don't know if Standard is around anymore.

 JM> There have been so many mergers, buyouts, etc over the years I have
 JM> no idea either.  Of course not having a car I don't pay that much
 JM> attention. We had Ashland Oil here, which evolved into Super America
 JM> when it brought out, I think Pure Oil, and now its Speedway.

Speedway also bought out Hess... we have Speedways here, too...

 JM> I know Esso, part of Standard Oil, has been Exxon for many years.

And merged with Mobil, so that the gas card is for ExxonMobil... the
stations themselves, though, are either Exxon or Mobil, with their usual
markings and symbols...

 JM> I recall Philips 66, gone.
 JM> Signal Oil, gone.
 JM> Sinclair, gone.
 JM> There are others I can't recall off hand.

I think Texaco is also gone ("You can trust the man that wears the
star")... and that was my first gas credit card....

ttyl       neb

.... "Abandon the search for Truth; settle for a good fantasy."

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