Oil: enough energy to melt glaciers!

From David Roberts via Grist

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, available on Google Books

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Hubris - thy name is Exxon-Mobil