From: necromancer on
On Wed, 9 Jun 2010 17:01:20 -0700 (PDT), JG <jgrove24(a)hotmail.com>
wrote:

>Anyways, I'd boycott Exxon Mobil which screwed AK fishermen and
>basically skated away with a Supreme Court cut
>in damages. And Exxon had to BUY MOBIL in order to get a "clean name"
>for retail stations. How many "Exxons" are left in states like CA ??

Dunno about CA, but there's plenty of both here in Georgia -
sometimes right next door to each other.

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From: necromancer on
On Wed, 09 Jun 2010 07:30:53 -0700, Scott in SoCal
<scottenaztlan(a)yahoo.com> wrote:

>Did the chain withdraw area-wide, like Jack in the Box, or just from
>the south?

Thinking of the south, years ago, Arco used to have a refinery here in
Brunswick located just west of what is now US341. After the land
changed hands several times, the area is now a superfund site and has
been since the early '90's. Just south of the site was a neighborhood
named Arco after the refinery (now a staging area for cargo
containers) and there are still a few businesses with the word,
"Arco," in their names - bur alas, no Arco gas stations.

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From: Brent on
On 2010-06-09, The Real Bev <bashley101(a)gmail.com> wrote:
> On 06/09/10 07:41, Brent wrote:
>
>> On 2010-06-09, Scott in SoCal<scottenaztlan(a)yahoo.com> wrote:
>>>
>>><tetraethylleadREMOVETHIS(a)yahoo.com> said:
>>>
>>>>> Which was my point. You cannot compare prices at gas stations from
>>>>> different locations. That Arco in the suburbs might actually charge
>>>>> more than the Shell station in Pilsen.
>>>>
>>>>No Arco's around here.
>>>
>>> Really? There certainly were Arco stations in Chicagoland when I lived
>>> there.
>>>
>>> Did the chain withdraw area-wide, like Jack in the Box, or just from
>>> the south?
>
> Chicago is south? South what? Canada?
>
>> I never recall ever seeing an arco station ever, anywhere in cook
>> county.
>
> Do you have BP stations? I don't think we have those in SoCal; at least I
> don't remember seeing one.

Yep. All the old amoco ones.


From: Steve Sobol on
In article <o89v0613ja503ui7qgogbo0to1lidtar60(a)4ax.com>,
scottenaztlan(a)yahoo.com says...
>
> Last time on rec.autos.driving, Brent
> <tetraethylleadREMOVETHIS(a)yahoo.com> said:
>
> >> Which was my point. You cannot compare prices at gas stations from
> >> different locations. That Arco in the suburbs might actually charge
> >> more than the Shell station in Pilsen.
> >
> >No Arco's around here.
>
> Really? There certainly were Arco stations in Chicagoland when I lived
> there.
>

There were Arco and Mobil stations in Cleveland long ago, too.

The Atlantic Richfield station in South Euclid, near where I grew up,
became a Sunoco and I don't know if it's even still open.

Jim's Mobil in Cleveland Heights has been a Marathon station for years,
but a sign on the side of the store still says "Parking for Jim's Mobil
only."

> Did the chain withdraw area-wide, like Jack in the Box, or just from
> the south?

Arco's been west-coast-only for many years.

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Steve Sobol, Victorville, California, USA
sjsobol(a)JustThe.net
From: Steve Sobol on
In article <hup50s$2qb$2(a)news.eternal-september.org>, bashley101
@gmail.com says...


>
> Do you have BP stations? I don't think we have those in SoCal; at least I
> don't remember seeing one.

Chicago has tons of BP stations that used to be Amoco stations. At one
point, BP bought Amoco and moved their US headquarters from Cleveland to
Chicago.

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Steve Sobol, Victorville, California, USA
sjsobol(a)JustThe.net