[Texgreen] FW: [climateallianceprivate] Oil company ad: melt glaciers

[Alfred Molison]

>From: HIrv@aol.com
>To: houstonclimateprotection@lists.riseup.net
>Subject: [climateallianceprivate] Oil company ad: melt glaciers
>Date: Tue, 9 Jan 2007 08:56:54 EST
>
>Did you catch Jay Leno's "Headlines" last  night?  He showed a color print
>advertisement from Humble (Exxon's  predecessor) showing a beautiful 
>glacier.
>The text excerpt read  by Jay said:
>
>"Each day Humble supplies enough energy to melt 7 million  tons of glacier.
>This giant glacier has remained unmelted for centuries.   Yet, the 
>petroleum
>energy Humble supplies can melt it  80 times in a second."
>
>Jay then ad libbed: "Global  warming?  What are you talking about?"
>
>Humble Oil & Refining was  the fully integrated (i.e., engaged in all
>segments of the oil business) Jersey Standard (Esso) subsidiary  for this 
>part of the
>USA.  It was fully acquired by the parent in 1960;  retail marketing under
>the Humble brand was discontinued in the late 1960's --  after a brief 
>period of
>using the "ENCO" brand name.  See
>_http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Humble_Oil_
>(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Humble_Oil)
>
>Embarassingly, Esso learned  belatedly that "enco" means "engine failure" 
>in
>Japanese.  (Reminiscent of  the ill-fated Chevy Nova; "nova" means "no go" 
>in
>Spanish.)
>
>Selected "Headlines" are featured on Jay  Leno's website, but this 
>particular
>one isn't up there (yet). See
>_http://www.nbc.com/The_Tonight_Show_with_Jay_Leno/headlines/_
>(http://www.nbc.com/The_Tonight_Show_with_Jay_Leno/headlines/)
>
>Irv

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