What’s the difference between Tiger Woods and Michael Jordan? Both cheated on their wives with numerous women. They both had squeaky clean immages. MJ’s indiscretions were kept hush hush, but Tiger’s blew up. The car accident and cover up didn’t help.

Simon, Esso was not founded by the British. My Grandfather was the CEO of ESSO until he passed away. Tiger in your tank..is American..Not British.

History
In 1911, Standard Oil was broken up into seven regional companies, each with the rights to the brand “Standard” in certain states (plus a number of other companies that had no territorial rights). Standard Oil of New Jersey (“Jersey Standard”) had the rights in that state, plus in Maryland, West Virginia, Virginia, North Carolina, South Carolina, and the District of Columbia. By 1941, it had also acquired the rights in Pennsylvania, Delaware, Arkansas, Tennessee, and Louisiana. In those states, it marketed its products under the brand “Esso”, the phonetic pronunciation of the letters “S” and “O”. It also used the Esso brand in New York and the six New England states, where the Standard Oil Company of New York (Socony – Vacuum, later Socony – Mobil)) had the rights, but did not object to the New Jersey company’s use of the trademark (the two companies did not merge until 1998). However, in the other states, the other Standard Oil companies objected and forced Jersey Standard to use other brand names. In most states the company used the trademark “Enco”, and in a few “Humble”. The other Standard companies likewise were “Standard” or some variant on that in their home states, and another brand name in other states.

This situation was confusing to travelers. In 1973, Standard Oil of New Jersey renamed itself as the Exxon Corporation, and adopted that trademark throughout the country. It however maintained the rights to “Standard” and “Esso” in the states where it held those rights, by a token effort, by selling “Esso Diesel” in those states at stations that sell diesel fuel, thus preventing the trademark from being declared abandoned. It retained the “Esso” brand in Puerto Rico and the United States Virgin Islands until 2008, when it sold its stations there to Total S.A.[1] The ENCO brand name was still used on locations in the Midwest, which were scheduled for abandonment.[2]

You are confusing the two:

United Kingdom
[edit] Esso Blue
Esso Blue was the brand name of Esso’s paraffin oil (kerosene) for domestic heaters in countries such as the United Kingdom. Their TV advertising song from the 1950s through to the 1970s was the famous “Bom, Bom, Bom, Bom, Esso Blue!” A later campaign used the well-known song tune of “Smoke Gets in Your Eyes” cleverly reworded as:

“They asked me how I knew, it was Esso Blue, I of course replied, with lower grades one buys, smoke gets in your eyes. … The non-smoking paraffin”.

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I really love this article. Your golfing metaphors are hilarious.
Tiger needs to be held accountable on the charges of DUI and perscription drugs in his system at the time of his accident. Celebrities need to be treated and face the same punishments as your everyday citizen. Granted their private life would not be exposed to the world.
when you play you pay! Tiger I feel understands this all too well by now.

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