Talk:Texaco

Membership in the MAS paramilitary organization

How is this not mentioned in the article? They were working with the frickin Medellín cartel. 2A02:908:4C15:EF20:EC09:317B:3D7C:10EC (talk) 10:23, 25 November 2018 (UTC)

Weird...

Has anyone else noticed that Texaco's logo is the sign of the devil? The star and circle? Coincidence or not, its true! —Preceding unsigned comment added by G-Hero47 (talk • contribs) 01:08, 12 March 2008 (UTC)

Have you noticed that Macy's symbol is a red star? Them commies are everywhere! WilliamSommerwerck (talk) 11:17, 8 May 2011 (UTC)

History section needs to be redone

Instead of providing a narrative, all it is is a list of notable years with events describing what happened in those years. It needs to be re-worked. 76.21.8.213 (talk) 01:04, 13 June 2008 (UTC)

Ordinarily I'd agree - but Texaco has a long history, and a list format is a lot more compact; else the 'article' would become a 'book'. A narrative form would mean pruning many of the events. That'd require someone with a sufficient grasp to know what matters and doesn't, and construct a meta-narrative.Twang (talk) 14:06, 11 June 2010 (UTC)

Re-rating article

I have re-rated the article as Start-class, largely due to the long and broken History section. Cdhaptomos talk–contribs 22:53, 26 May 2009 (UTC)

Both Fire Chief and Sky Chief gasolines are promoted as "Climate Controlled" as various blends of both gasolines are distributed to Texaco stations in various parts of the country.

Vietnam chant

No mention of the Vietnam protest chant "Hell no, we won't go/We won't die for Texaco". Vernon White ^{. . . Talk} 12:46, 24 January 2011 (UTC)

opera

How an article about Texaco can fail to mention its 50-year sponsor ship of the Met broadcasts, is beyond my comprehension. Not to mention the Texaco Star Theater. WilliamSommerwerck (talk) 11:16, 8 May 2011 (UTC)

texaco founder{s}

The article failed to mention one of the key founders { if not the founder } of the Texas Company named John Warne Gates also known as John 'Bet a Million Gates' { see Wikipedia article: John Warne Gates }. John was from the Chicago area { born in Winfield, Il. } & married Delora Baker of St. Charles, Il. . John started out his career as a barbed wire salesman and eventually owned his own barbed wire manufacturing company. Many business trips involved travel to Texas as this was premier cattle country. On one of many trips to Texas, John purchased land on which he would later strike oil. The Texas company { later to be re-named Texaco } was launched & headquartered in Port Arthur, Texas. Many contributions from Gates can be seen around Port Arthur such as the Gates Memorial Library. Upon Gates death in 1911, his fortune was left to his widow, Dellora, and following her demise; the fortune was left to Edward J. Baker { Dellora's brother } of St. Charles, Il. . Like Port Arthur, Many buildings in St. Charles can be attributed to the Gates fortune such as the Baker Community Center, The St. Charles National Bank Building, The Baker United Methodist Church and the famous Baker Hotel to name a few. No article on the history of the Texaco Oil Co. is complete without mentioning John 'Bet a Million' Gates. markkasparMarkkaspar (talk) 02:37, 25 January 2012 (UTC)

If you have a source to go with it I say add it in? Sounds like useful information. Warren (talk) 22:13, 26 January 2012 (UTC)

I came here for this specific reason as your own article about Gates lists him as the founder of The Texas Company and Texaco and almost every article about Gates lists him as the founder of Texaco via the Texas Company. However, the wiki article about Gates doesn't mention the people you list in this article as founders of Texaco and I see the same conflicts on other sites where Cullinan and his group are listed while on others only Gates is listed. However, many of the articles I see listing Cullinan tend to be copies of the information you provided.

Anyone doing research on Bet A Million John Gates will find he is listed not only as a founder of Texaco, but possibly as the key instrumental founder behind the company

So I began looking for answers and found it. When The Texas Fuel Company was started, it actually did not have a lot of capital behind it.

Quote Since The Texas Fuel Company was not set up to drill wells and produce crude oil, Cullinan organized the Producers Oil Company on January 17, 1902, as an affiliate of The Texas Fuel Company. John W. (bet-a-million) Gates and other prominent men invested about $90,000 in "certificates of interest" in the new company. End Quote

I will edit and add this information. Feel free to challenge and seek additional information as this is a conflict in the history of this company and in Wikipedias own information. Gates was not a founder of the Texas Fuel Company but was an investor in the Producers Oil Company. A missing link in the history of Texaco and even in Wikipedias own article on John Gates as Gates was not a founder of the Texas Fuel Company but was a heavy investor in the subsidiary company that eventually became Texaco through later restructuring efforts of the company.

Armorbeast (talk) 10:14, 4 September 2018 (UTC)

References

was in norway

here is the story of the norwegian texaco based on my knowledge. texaco station was common but fusioned with hydro stations after which they offered free coffe for anybody that bought a specialy themed cup for a year(the deal remained active so lots of people could renew the deal on a yearly basis.). good for the customers but bad for the company. they initally had a mixed logo but later changed the entire logo. based on what is listed on wikipedia it changed name to yx energi.84.212.73.96 (talk) 22:28, 3 February 2016 (UTC)