In article <2438bd67-f191-42ec-b6f2-e0ce3f451dad@googlegroups.com>,
<gvcrafton@gmail.com> wrote:

There are some Gulf stations in Houston Tx, Haven't seen any Esso

There are no Esso stations left in the U.S. and there haven't been
since 1972. As part of the Standard Oil breakup in 1911 each of the
successor Standard Oil companies had the right to use the Standard
name in its own territory. A court case in the 1930s said that Esso
was too close to S.O., so the Standard Oil company of New Jersey could
only use that name in its home territory in the eastern U.S. and used
other names elsewhere including Humble and Enco. In 1972 they
rebranded all of their U.S. properties as Exxon.

Outside the U.S. none of this applied so there are lots of Esso
stations in other countries around the world.

The Gulf name is even more complicated. The former Gulf Oil company
was merged into Chevron in the 1970s, the name was mostly abandoned,
then was licensed to regional operators so the Gulf stations you see
now are unrelated to the old Gulf company, and the ones in Texas
are not the same company as the ones in the northeast.

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