Living Car Free - Exxon knows a good thing-- Bicycles

Thought that this was ironic. Looks like Exxon values the bicycle as a cheap, easy, effective, productive tool.

I found this safty pdf document on the Exxon website, when I plugged in "Bicycles".

http://www2.exxonmobil.com/corporate/files/corporate/Exhib_G_Baytown%20Area_January2004.pdf

5.0 Bicycles
5.1 All Company-owned bicycles are required to be equipped with chain guards.
5.2 Ride bicycles on the right-hand side of the road.
5.3 Bicycles are used for in-plant transportation. Process units should not be used as thoroughfares.
5.4 DO NOT:
§ Ride bicycles inside a building.
§ Stunt or race on bicycles.
§ Hold on to moving vehicles while riding a bicycle
§ Ride on walkways where vehicular roads are available
§ Weave in and out of traffic
§ Have more than one person on a bicycle at a time
DO:
§ Give pedestrian's right-of-way on walkways
§ Obey traffic control signs
§ Fasten all objects carried on bicycles
§ Park bicycles in a bicycle rack, if provided. Use the bicycle stand where racks are not
provided
§ Wear safety glasses and hard hat at all times inside the plant when riding bicycles
5.5 Recommended maximum basket load for bicycles is 25 pounds on the front or 40 pounds on the
rear. Three-wheeled bicycles are permitted to carry heavier loads, but should not exceed the axis
rating.
5.6 Bicycle baskets at BOP are required to be lined to prevent objects from falling through.
5.7 All bicycles at BOP are required to be inspected annually and display a BOP inspection sticker.

actaully, i've heard of other large plants and facilities using bicycles to get from one side to the other. it makes a lot of sense. too bad you and your co-workers can't race them though. :p

Did you see traffic rules 4.0 page 22?

4.0 Traffic Rules
4.1 All motor vehicles shall give right-of-way to pedestrians, bicycles, ambulances, and fire fighting
equipment. All drivers of motor vehicles shall practice ordinary driving courtesy and defensive
driving.

Exxon knows a good thing-- Bicycles

Exxon "knows" another good thing:

The best long-term solution to rising energy prices is investment into finding new supplies of oil and gas and efficiently producing and using energy.

Unlike British Petroleum (BP) whose slogan is now apparently "beyond petroleum", and other energy companies who realize that a lot of our energy very soon may be coming from non-petroleum sources, exxon holds the view that more oil is what we need, and we need to keep the price of oil from going up.

Prices going up would force people to reduce usage, and exxon doesn't want that. Personally I don't think people will reduce usage much unless and until prices go up.

Go exxon.

actaully, i've heard of other large plants and facilities using bicycles to get from one side to the other. it makes a lot of sense. too bad you and your co-workers can't race them though. :p

When I went to the Vancouver Indy races a couple of years ago, the team members of the race cars used bikes to get around the grounds. I guess they recognize efficient transportation.

At the Walgreens distribution center in Jupiter, FL the maintenance people use trikes with baskets on the back to get around the building. When I visited with my intern group I was like, "OH!!!!"

The mega plants would make great bicycling. When riding in the plant area, please no smoking near the fumes, or no stunt jumping off of the giant petroleum process pipes. Too bad XOM doesn’t do something really crazy, like sponsor a TDF team. People are changing their habits.

5.4 DO NOT:
§ Stunt or race on bicycles.
§ Ride on walkways where vehicular roads are available


XOM isn't the only oil money maker, some others have a better ROI. Funny how they all have more or less the same shaped graph.

http://moneycentral.msn.com/investor/charts/chartdl.asp?Symbol=XOM&ShowChtBt=Refresh+Chart&DateRangeForm=1&CP=0&PT=7&C5=1&C6=&C7=1&C8=&C9=0&ComparisonsForm=1&CE=0&CompSyms=&DisplayForm=1&D5=0&D7=&D6=&D3=0
http://moneycentral.msn.com/investor/charts/chartdl.asp?Symbol=APC&ShowChtBt=Refresh+Chart&DateRangeForm=1&CP=0&PT=7&C5=1&C6=&C7=1&C8=&C9=0&ComparisonsForm=1&CE=0&CompSyms=&DisplayForm=1&D5=0&D7=&D6=&D3=0
http://moneycentral.msn.com/investor/charts/chartdl.asp?Symbol=OXY&ShowChtBt=Refresh+Chart&DateRangeForm=1&CP=0&PT=7&C5=1&C6=&C7=1&C8=&C9=0&ComparisonsForm=1&CE=0&CompSyms=&DisplayForm=1&D5=0&D7=&D6=&D3=0
http://moneycentral.msn.com/investor/charts/chartdl.asp?Symbol=DVN&ShowChtBt=Refresh+Chart&DateRangeForm=1&CP=0&PT=7&C5=1&C6=&C7=1&C8=&C9=0&ComparisonsForm=1&CE=0&CompSyms=&DisplayForm=1&D5=0&D7=&D6=&D3=0
http://moneycentral.msn.com/investor/charts/chartdl.asp?Symbol=MRO&ShowChtBt=Refresh+Chart&DateRangeForm=1&CP=0&PT=7&C5=1&C6=&C7=1&C8=&C9=0&ComparisonsForm=1&CE=0&CompSyms=&DisplayForm=1&D5=0&D7=&D6=&D3=0

5.4 DO NOT:
§ Ride bicycles inside a building.
DO:
§ Wear safety glasses and hard hat at all times inside the plant when riding bicycles

Does the plant not qualify as a building?

Does the plant not qualify as a building?

I was assuming the "plant" was a piece of land with a bunch of buildings on it... like a "campus".

I've been to a few oil terminals now, and bicycles are the norm for getting about if there's no heavy tools needed. It would be great to try out some urban assault at St. Fergus, Nigg Bay would be better as there's more hump-backed bridges and jetties! But if you're needing to change out a 6"300# ball valve, a Ford Ranger is gonna be a much better tool for taking to the stores...

Oh, and ExxonMobil are c*nts... at least Shell and BP are investing heavily in renewables. Definitely the way forward - offshore windfarms are infinitely preferable to coal-burning power stations! Nuclear's even more preferable, but I imagine no-one here will agree...

Nuclear's even more preferable, but I imagine no-one here will agree...

I will.

I'm on the fence with nuclear. Cleaner to coal and gas plants, and more reliable than wind/hydro/solar. We just need a good place to put the waste, and tripple or quaddrupel redundant saftey systems, but thats besides the point.

At the Pisa (italy airport) all the ground crews ride cute little red bikes. The airport is pretty small, but still far to big for baggae handlers to walk end to end in a decent amount of time. Most big corporate campuses I have been to have used golf carts. Not polluting, but for simple employee transport, a big waste.

Now what we need to do is get exxon customers off of their bikes. Riding a bike around work is one thing, riding a bike to work is another.

Bicycles are very commonly used in industrial plants. It's a cheap, easy way for people to get around and move small items without having to deal with devoting a lot of space for parking facilities. You don't have to spend time refuelling the vehicles every couple days and maintenance costs are low. Electric golf carts are also very popular.

...and compare the cost of an electric golf cart to a bike.

...and compare the cost of an electric golf cart to a bike.

The question of cost came into play for me recently. I'm somewhat handicapped so
I need accomodation to lessen my walking. I submitted my request for an adult
industrial trike to be my "legs" as I traveled from job to job. A cart cost $6,000+
while the trike I asked for cost $600 delivered. The company denied my request
due to not wanting to set precedent of accomodating handicapped workers. As
a result I was forced to leave the job returning to retirement. The legality of
this denial is now being debated in court.

They used golf karts in the austin powers movie... he got it stuck in the hallway... I bet he would not have got a bike stuck ! LOL

The question of cost came into play for me recently. I'm somewhat handicapped so
I need accomodation to lessen my walking. I submitted my request for an adult
industrial trike to be my "legs" as I traveled from job to job. A cart cost $6,000+
while the trike I asked for cost $600 delivered. The company denied my request
due to not wanting to set precedent of accomodating handicapped workers. As
a result I was forced to leave the job returning to retirement. The legality of
this denial is now being debated in court.
This sounds like a horrible injustice. Are any advocacy groups helping you out? It seems like both disability and cycling groups would be interested. I hope you win soon! :)

Thought that this was ironic. Looks like Exxon values the bicycle as a cheap, easy, effective, productive tool.

In the '70s when I worked as a Utility Worker at Hughes Aircraft my job was to move objects from point A to B using any tools necessary. Hughes had in-company truck drivers who could generally move a box from the Airport Site to the El Segundo site in about a day and a half. The distance might have been 2 and a half miles.

My bosses loved it when they discovered that I could pedal it myself in about 20 minutes. Given the sizes of the parking lots of the respective sites, that was faster than an automobile could take it.

That lead to a lot of animosity towards me from the union truck drivers. They hassled me so much trying to catch me working outside of my job description that the union had to give me a copy of my job description to carry with me so that the stewards could read it when the drivers complained.

They tried to bust me for years without success. Then, I was promoted to a technician. They didn't know of the promotion and they actually asked me to help them move a stone testing slab. Afterwards, I went back to my new test station. When they saw that, they called the steward immediately. But the steward noted that they had asked me to help them. Neener Neener.

........Nuclear's even more preferable, but I imagine no-one here will agree...I will.
Me too.



In the '70s when I worked as a Utility Worker at Hughes Aircraft my job was to move objects from point A to B using any tools necessary. Hughes had in-company truck drivers who could generally move a box from the Airport Site to the El Segundo site in about a day and a half. The distance might have been 2 and a half miles.

My bosses loved it when they discovered that I could pedal it myself in about 20 minutes. Given the sizes of the parking lots of the respective sites, that was faster than an automobile could take it.

That lead to a lot of animosity towards me from the union truck drivers. They hassled me so much trying to catch me working outside of my job description that the union had to give me a copy of my job description to carry with me so that the stewards could read it when the drivers complained.

They tried to bust me for years without success. Then, I was promoted to a technician. They didn't know of the promotion and they actually asked me to help them move a stone testing slab. Afterwards, I went back to my new test station. When they saw that, they called the steward immediately. But the steward noted that they had asked me to help them. Neener Neener.
This is hilarious. :roflmao: :roflmao: :roflmao: