Finally Truth In Oil Company Advertising! Enough Energy to Melt That Glacier
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From a sharp-eyed reader comes this ad for Humble Oil (which later merged with Standard to become, yes, Exxon). It may win the All Time Millenial Award for Maximal Irony. It’s from a 1962 edition of Life Magazine,
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The giant glacier has remained unmelted for centuries. Yet the petroleum energy Humble supplies -- if converted into heat -- could melt it at the rate of 80 tons each second. ... ...
Bigger image here: http://www.grist.org/i/assets/2/humble-oil.jpg
http://www.treehugger.com/files/2009/11/humble-oil-company-enough-energy-melt-gl...
The text starts:
The giant glacier has remained unmelted for centuries. Yet the petroleum energy Humble supplies -- if converted into heat -- could melt it at the rate of 80 tons each second. ... ...
Bigger image here: http://www.grist.org/i/assets/2/humble-oil.jpg
http://www.treehugger.com/files/2009/11/humble-oil-company-enough-energy-melt-gl...
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