What is Texaco?
'''Texaco''' (or '''The Texas Company'''; originally called '''The Texas Fuel Company''') is an [[United States|American]] [[petroleum]] and [[gasoline]] [[company]]. It was founded in 1902 in [[Beaumont, Texas]].<ref>{{cite web|title=History of Texaco|publisher=Texaco|url=http://www.texaco.com/about.html|access-date=July 22, 2021|archive-date=October 15, 2016|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20161015201958/http://www.texaco.com/about.html|url-status=bot: unknown}}</ref> The [[Chevron Corporation]] bought the Texaco company in late 2000.<ref>{{cite web|title=Oil Giant Chevron Buys Rival Texaco|publisher=The BBC News|url=http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/business/973161.stm|access-date=July 22, 2021}}</ref> In 1931, Texaco bought the Indian Oil Company. The Indian Oil Company was in [[Illinois]]. This expanded the company's refining and marketing base across the [[midwestern United States]]. It also gave Texaco rights to Indian's [[Havoline]] [[motor oil]] (which became a Texaco product). In 1994, the System3 gasolines by Texaco were replaced with new CleanSystem3 gasoline for improved [[engine]] performance. Texaco gasoline contains Techron, an additive developed by Chevron in 2005. It replaces the previous CleanSystem3. This Texaco brand is strong in [[Latin America]], the [[United States]] and [[West Africa]]. It is also in [[Europe]]. In the [[United Kingdom]], there are about 850 Texaco-branded [[gas station]]s.<ref>{{cite web|title=Valero|publisher=Texaco UK|url=https://texaco.co.uk/about-us|access-date=July 22, 2021}}</ref> In 2010, Texaco ended business operations across the [[Mid-Atlantic States]]. Texaco removed its brand from 450 stations in [[Delaware]], [[Pennsylvania]], [[New Jersey]], [[Maryland]], [[Ohio]], [[Indiana]], [[West Virginia]], [[South Carolina]], [[North Carolina]], [[Kentucky]] and [[Washington, D.C.]].<ref>{{cite web|title=An Eastern Withdrawal for Chevron|publisher=CSP|url=http://www.cspnet.com/news/fuels/articles/eastern-withdrawal-chevron|access-date=July 22, 2021|archive-da