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[edit] History

Where in the world does it say anywhere in history that King Devin McIlvain found the holy grail and that inspired him to create Exxon? If this is true then it needs to be cited. I'll be surprised if someone can find a valid source for that. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 66.57.47.48 (talk) 17:58, 21 May 2008 (UTC)

[edit] Human Rights violations

See this article: http://www.laborrights.org/projects/corporate/exxon/

see also this section from CMTV news commentarry top ten anti homosexual companies:

...Why We Picked Them: Exxon, in 1999, was only the second company in American history to rescind domestic partner benefits for its employees (Perot Systems Corp. was the first—see above). It also rescinded its sexual non-discrimination policy that was once in its employee handbook. Exxon is not exactly on the HRC's list of favorite companies, given that Exxon regularly donates money to organizations dedicated to upholding traditional family values...

and again:

http://www.democracynow.org/article.pl?sid=05/01/04/160250

and again:

http://www.findarticles.com/p/articles/mi_m1141/is_34_37/ai_76697365

article after article points to these being not nice people

Here they get the lowest possible rating: http://www.betterworldhandbook.com/gasoline.html


Here is a section:

ANWR driller, Nigerian Environmental Damage, 1989 Exxon Valdez oil spill, refuses to pay EV spill damages, no responsibility taken for spill, 1990 Staten Island oil spill, Clean Air Act violations, toxic dumping suit, human rights violations, Chad pipeline, MM's 10 Worst List (x4), MM's Top 100 Corp Criminals (#5), HRC Equality Laggard, Greenpeace Boycott, Corporate Responsibility Intl Boycott, Sierra Club Boycott, Top 25 Superfund Polluters, Only Top 50 company to discriminate based on sexuality, evidence of political manipulation, responsible for 5% of all global greenhouse gases, Indonesian human rights abuses, New York toxic dumping, Louisiana radioactive waste suit, MTBE lawsusit, Kazakhstan toxic sulphur suit, Louisiana air pollution suit, Califronia oil spill, silenced shareholder resolutions, price-gouging suit, deceptive practices suit, Alabama fraud suit, Angola "Arms For Oil" scandal, Foreign bribery charges, highest emissions in the industry, Australian safety suit, Canadian sour gas death suits, Top 10 Greenwashers

Why don't you (whoever wrote the above comments) add a section in the Exxon article about their alleged human rights violations. Currently, the only information present is their history. This article seems severly lacking. Ingres77 13:55, 23 July 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Esso diesel today?

The other day I filled up at an Exxon in MA and noticed that the diesel pump said “Esso Diesel” whereas the three grades of gas were labeled Exxon. Could someone explain this? —Ben FrantzDale 12:09, 3 July 2006 (UTC)


[edit] Controversy

The section that says 'controversy' is empty on the main article. I will delete it, for 'look-good' reasons. I fanyone finds actual material to put in a 'controversy' section, do so.

You mean something like this [1]? Totnesmartin 13:51, 4 January 2007 (UTC)

[edit] 37 $Billion In Profits

Under the Trivia section, the article says that Exxon profited 10 billion dollars, however, according to http://money.cnn.com/magazines/fortune/fortune500/full_list/ Exxon profited 36.130 billion dollars.

The 37 billion dollar profit was the outcome of ExxonMobil at the end of the year, In the past Exxon did have a profit 10 billion dollars as a separate company. This was before the merge with Mobil making it the undisputed superior amongst the oil companies. —The preceding unsigned comment was added by Gunis del (talk • contribs) 04:53, 8 December 2006 (UTC).

Profits should be reported in context. For instance, media companies' profit margins are higher than oil companies' by several-fold. However, the largely anti-business U.S. and other western media are reluctant to report this context. —The preceding unsigned comment was added by 75.5.199.244 (talk) 21:58, August 23, 2007 (UTC)

[edit] FYI: Exxon Corporation is no more

This article is about Exxon, which is either:

-a corporation which no longer exists since its merger with Mobil Corp, or a brand of gasoline

Any references (there were many) to ExxonMobil's 2006 profits, recent activities, or current environmental positions aren't appropriate for the article on the brand and the defunct corporation. ("Exxon Corporation" didn't exist in 2006, so how could it have any profits? And, profits for the Exxon brand are not the same as those for ExxonMobil Corp.) These issues are more appropriately handled in the article for Exxon's still-operating successor ExxonMobil.

I deleted several such erroneous references from this article. Meersman 07:55, 26 December 2006 (UTC)

What do people think about redirecting the search term "Exxon" to "ExxonMobil"? My thought is that most times when people type in "Exxon", they are actually looking for the company "ExxonMobile" (known as Exxon until the 2006 merger), rather than the brand of gasoline. There were would be disambiguation link just under the ExxonMobile banner saying "if you're looking for the brand of gasoline, see Exxon. Hyphenated company names are confusing for most people. Pro crast in a tor 02:33, 25 August 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Please don't copy and paste copyrighted stories

There has been repeated copy and paste edits to this article from the Guardian Unlimited, this is a copyright violation see Wikipedia:Copyright problems and WP:COPYRIGHT editors wish to include aspects of this story must rewrite the section of the article, excluding copyrighted text.▪◦▪≡ЅiREX≡Talk 16:55, 23 August 2007 (UTC)