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EXXON Biggest Profit in American History
Mulch Ennui
15 Minutes are Over
Join date: 22 May 2005
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01-30-2006 07:31
http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20060130/ap_on_bi_ge/earns_exxon_mobil_5

FLASHBACK: /112/17/70787/1.html
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Taco Rubio
also quite creepy
Join date: 15 Feb 2004
Posts: 3,349
01-30-2006 07:34
I find this post entirely unfair to Chevron :mad:
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Joy Honey
Not just another dumass
Join date: 17 Jun 2005
Posts: 3,751
01-30-2006 08:15
I find both posts offensive as I have to pay more than $2.30/gallon just for regular unleaded :mad:

Damn profiteers :p
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Introvert Petunia
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Join date: 11 Sep 2004
Posts: 2,065
01-30-2006 08:23
Hey, all that money has to go somewhere and I'm sure it has absolutely nothing to do with the current administration, patronage, or corporacracy.

Also, I find myself on the planet Ogo, part of an intellectual elite, preparing to subjugate the barbarian hordes on Pluto. But even though this is a totally convincing reality for me in every way, nevertheless Ogo is actually a construct of my psyche.
Gabe Lippmann
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Join date: 14 Jun 2004
Posts: 4,219
01-30-2006 08:25
Exxon is not the only one....

http://www.timesonline.co.uk/article/0,,2095-2014300,00.html
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Joy Honey
Not just another dumass
Join date: 17 Jun 2005
Posts: 3,751
01-30-2006 08:53
From: Introvert Petunia
Hey, all that money has to go somewhere and I'm sure it has absolutely nothing to do with the current administration, patronage, or corporacracy.

Also, I find myself on the planet Ogo, part of an intellectual elite, preparing to subjugate the barbarian hordes on Pluto. But even though this is a totally convincing reality for me in every way, nevertheless Ogo is actually a construct of my psyche.


You mean Ogo isn't the 10th planet? :confused: :D
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Introvert Petunia
over 2 billion posts
Join date: 11 Sep 2004
Posts: 2,065
01-30-2006 09:43
From: Joy Honey
Ignoring you since 1/6/06
Hey, stop not ignoring me! :mad:
Joy Honey
Not just another dumass
Join date: 17 Jun 2005
Posts: 3,751
01-30-2006 11:26
From: Introvert Petunia
Hey, stop not ignoring me! :mad:


hehee I suppose I should change that now, since the person I was ignoring has not yet returned :D
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Bazz Saarinen
Broken Producer
Join date: 24 Jan 2006
Posts: 12
01-30-2006 19:27
This just proves that it's not the war that is raising prices, it's the companies. But everyone already knew that.
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Mulch Ennui
15 Minutes are Over
Join date: 22 May 2005
Posts: 2,607
02-02-2006 20:08
From: http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/energy_congress_gasoline_dc

Exxon Mobil said on Monday it earned $10.7 billion in the fourth quarter of last year and $36.1 billion for all of 2005 -- bigger than the economies of 125 countries.

http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/energy_congress_gasoline_dc

hmmm

From: someone
Officials from six major oil companies have refused to testify this week at a Senate hearing looking into whether oil industry mergers in recent years have made gasoline more expensive at the pump.

...

The FTC is investigation whether oil companies manipulated gasoline prices and oil refining production levels. The agency plans to finish its probe and send its findings to Congress this May.



nah, couldn't be

From: G.W. Bush

I think that basically the price is determined by the marketplace and that's the way it should be


http://www.forbes.com/technology/feeds/ap/2006/02/02/ap2494155.html

From: someone

(Bush) said the profit reflected the market and that consumers socked with soaring energy costs should not expect price breaks.
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I have of late--but wherefore I know not--lost all my mirth, that this goodly frame, the earth, seems to me a sterile promontory, this most excellent canopy, the air, look you, this brave o'erhanging firmament, this majestical roof fretted with golden fire, why, it appears no other thing to me than a foul and pestilent congregation of vapours.

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Jeffrey Gomez
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Join date: 11 Jun 2004
Posts: 3,522
02-02-2006 20:45
Ah yes, the classic bait and switch.


Step 1: Offer tax breaks on larger, gas-guzzling behemoths.
Step 2: Get oil buddies to raise prices.
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Profit!*


*And use the money to drive GDP and new job figures, too!

I give the current administration an A for intelligence and an F for ethics. Though lumping Bush and Cheney together would average at around a C, for reference.
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