Exxon: near record profits

[CalvinHobbes]

Sorry, I just think the whole thing is B.S. the oil companies are raping the public and no one is willing to do anything about it.

 

[RichardE]

Exxon pumps oil, future traderes make the prices go up. Blame wall street.

 

[TrueBlueLS]

I blame the oil companies for a lack of refineries.

 

[crimson117]

Originally posted by: Queasy

Originally posted by: HomerJS
I have a big problem with their record profits and Cheney giving the oil companies billions in tax breaks. Can we get that money back?

Oil companies getting millions in tax breaks is giving money back to us. Where do you think the oil companies get the money to pay for their taxes?

My head just exploded reading that line.

 

[Cattlegod]

Why don't we just make cars that run on milk?

 

[chambersc]

OH MY GOD THEY MADE X PROFIT!!!!!! CALL THE POLICE THEY MUST BE DOING SOMETHING WRONG!!!!

 

[dainthomas]

Originally posted by: crimson117

Originally posted by: Queasy

Originally posted by: HomerJS
I have a big problem with their record profits and Cheney giving the oil companies billions in tax breaks. Can we get that money back?

Oil companies getting millions in tax breaks is giving money back to us. Where do you think the oil companies get the money to pay for their taxes?

My head just exploded reading that line.

No doubt.

1. If giving Exxon money was giving me money, I wouldn't have to sit here and nef at work.

2. I'm sure they could scrape up enough for taxes out of that $10,000,000,000.

 

[mordantmonkey]

Originally posted by: dainthomas

Originally posted by: crimson117

Originally posted by: Queasy

Originally posted by: HomerJS
I have a big problem with their record profits and Cheney giving the oil companies billions in tax breaks. Can we get that money back?

Oil companies getting millions in tax breaks is giving money back to us. Where do you think the oil companies get the money to pay for their taxes?

My head just exploded reading that line.

No doubt.
1. If giving Exxon money was giving me money, I wouldn't have to sit here and nef at work.
2. I'm sure they could scrape up enough for taxes out of that $10,000,000,000.

You obviously don't understand trickle down economics. It's like a variation on "sh*t rolls downhill." but with glorious money instead the feces of CEO's and their cronies in office.

 

[TallBill]

Originally posted by: torpid
I am pretty sure a gallon of gas costs more than a gallon of milk.

$2.88 for gas, $1.55 for milk (but thats at the comissary)

 

[Amused]

The most amazing thing here (besides the blatant ignorance of how the market works) is that so many people feel they are entitled to a company's product.

You are not. If Exxon's (and the other oil companies) profits disgust you, stop buying their product. Contrary to popular opinion you do NOT need gasoline. You do NOT need to live miles from work and you do NOT need to drive everywhere.

 

[chambersc]

Originally posted by: Amused
The most amazing thing here (besides the blatant ignorance of how the market works) is that so many people feel they are entitled to a company's product.

You are not. If Exxon's (and the other oil companies) profits disgust you, stop buying their product. Contrary to popular opinion you do NOT need gasoline. You do NOT need to live miles from work and you do NOT need to drive everywhere.

SHH! Rationality has no place where the circle jerk is mumbling something about Vice President Cheney.

 

[Thraxen]

Originally posted by: Amused
The most amazing thing here (besides the blatant ignorance of how the market works) is that so many people feel they are entitled to a company's product.

You are not. If Exxon's (and the other oil companies) profits disgust you, stop buying their product. Contrary to popular opinion you do NOT need gasoline. You do NOT need to live miles from work and you do NOT need to drive everywhere.

Ummm... yes, you do.

 

[Amused]

Originally posted by: Thraxen

Originally posted by: Amused
The most amazing thing here (besides the blatant ignorance of how the market works) is that so many people feel they are entitled to a company's product.

You are not. If Exxon's (and the other oil companies) profits disgust you, stop buying their product. Contrary to popular opinion you do NOT need gasoline. You do NOT need to live miles from work and you do NOT need to drive everywhere.

Ummm... yes, you do.

Really? Why?

 

[EKKC]

i, for one, will buy some more bottled water in preparation for another american civil war started by gas prices.

$13xx/second PROFIT. wow. give me 13 cents a second and i'd have 4 mil in a year.
just... wow.

 

[Thraxen]

Your statement simply doesn't apply to most people. Most can't live within a few miles of work for various reasons... price of housing, lack of housing, etc... The only places within a few miles of me are restaurants. Sure, I could work there, but then I couldn't afford my home.

 

[Amused]

Originally posted by: Thraxen
Your statement simply doesn't apply to most people. Most can't live within a few miles of work for various reasons... price of housing, lack of housing, etc... The only places within a few miles of me are restaurants. Sure, I could work there, but then I couldn't afford my home.

There is no housing with 5 miles of your work?

Wow.

 

[michaels]

Good for them for being a successful company, wish I could be like that.

 

[Homerboy]

Originally posted by: Amused
The most amazing thing here (besides the blatant ignorance of how the market works) is that so many people feel they are entitled to a company's product.

You are not. If Exxon's (and the other oil companies) profits disgust you, stop buying their product. Contrary to popular opinion you do NOT need gasoline. You do NOT need to live miles from work and you do NOT need to drive everywhere.

I ride the bus every day thank you.
Upon further review more than gas is made from petroleum too.

 

[Amused]

Originally posted by: Homerboy

Originally posted by: Amused
The most amazing thing here (besides the blatant ignorance of how the market works) is that so many people feel they are entitled to a company's product.

You are not. If Exxon's (and the other oil companies) profits disgust you, stop buying their product. Contrary to popular opinion you do NOT need gasoline. You do NOT need to live miles from work and you do NOT need to drive everywhere.

I ride the bus every day thank you.

Good for you!

Upon further review more than gas is made from petroleum too.

Irrelevant.

 

[dartworth]

Originally posted by: Thraxen

Originally posted by: Amused
The most amazing thing here (besides the blatant ignorance of how the market works) is that so many people feel they are entitled to a company's product.

You are not. If Exxon's (and the other oil companies) profits disgust you, stop buying their product. Contrary to popular opinion you do NOT need gasoline. You do NOT need to live miles from work and you do NOT need to drive everywhere.

Ummm... yes, you do.

 

[spidey07]

man, all of these posts remind me of Team America. "they're all corporationy and stuff"

Alec Baldwin: The Film Actors' Guild believes that what the world needs is compassion, not violence. All that Team America does is create new enemies.
Tim Robbins: Let me explain to you how this works. You see, the corporations finance Team America. And then Team America goes out and the corporations sit there in their, ih in their corporation buildings and, and and see that's, they're all corporationy, and they make money. Mhm.

 

[CalvinHobbes]

Originally posted by: Amused
The most amazing thing here (besides the blatant ignorance of how the market works) is that so many people feel they are entitled to a company's product.

You are not. If Exxon's (and the other oil companies) profits disgust you, stop buying their product. Contrary to popular opinion you do NOT need gasoline. You do NOT need to live miles from work and you do NOT need to drive everywhere.

Maybe the water/sewer service should start costing $200 a month for everyone. Electricity should be $600 a month. We don't need either, it's just nice to have. It makes me sick when people say, they're a corporation, they need to make money. So is every other business yet they're not taking advantage of the situation.

 

[Amused]

Originally posted by: dartworth

Originally posted by: Thraxen

Originally posted by: Amused
The most amazing thing here (besides the blatant ignorance of how the market works) is that so many people feel they are entitled to a company's product.

You are not. If Exxon's (and the other oil companies) profits disgust you, stop buying their product. Contrary to popular opinion you do NOT need gasoline. You do NOT need to live miles from work and you do NOT need to drive everywhere.

Ummm... yes, you do.

Oh look, another one who claims there isn't housing near their job... yet in reality they choose to live far away for a bigger house, better schools, etc. Yet another person who doesn't have the courage of their convictions. "I demand cheap gas so I can live in the suburbs 30 miles from my work in a bigger house with "better" schools."

 

[slsmnaz]

Originally posted by: CalvinHobbes

Originally posted by: Amused
The most amazing thing here (besides the blatant ignorance of how the market works) is that so many people feel they are entitled to a company's product.

You are not. If Exxon's (and the other oil companies) profits disgust you, stop buying their product. Contrary to popular opinion you do NOT need gasoline. You do NOT need to live miles from work and you do NOT need to drive everywhere.

Maybe the water/sewer service should start costing $200 a month for everyone. Electricity should be $600 a month. We don't need either, it's just nice to have. It makes me sick when people say, they're a corporation, they need to make money. So is every other business yet they're not taking advantage of the situation.

Capitalism. Don't like it, don't buy it. It's what makes the US what it is. Ride the bus, get a bike or *gasp* walk.

I don't hear anyone in Congress advocating lowering the tax on gas to help out. It's easier to blame the big. bad corporations. Exxon is not setting the price, it's reacting to it. The speculators are driving it through the roof.

All the tree-huggers also need to stop complaining and let the US tap into its own oil.

 

[Eeezee]

Originally posted by: Queasy

Originally posted by: torpid
I am pretty sure a gallon of gas costs more than a gallon of milk.

Gas is ~$2.90 here in Atlanta on the cheap side. Unless someone is running a 2 for $5.00 sale, milk is ~$3.22 and up.

Really? Around here milk isn't more than $2.50. It's usually around $2.25 for a full gallon.

And this is in Arizona, there are no cows here! WTF is going on?