What? No anti-Exxon thread yet?

[Luke]

$14,000,000,000 billion quarterly profit, another record, let's spin that ole tune.:munch

[lcjc800]

the money had to go somewhere.

[cadduc]

14 billion = $14,000,000,000.00

well it sounds like a lot of money
that is because we think small
and
they will need much more than that

[greuvin]

I'm just a lowly contractor doing an engineering project for them. They are keeping me and a bunch of other engineers employed, so no static from me. Besides, you can bitch all you want. You think it will change anything? LOL. Those guys are the biggest pigs in existance. Worse than the Pharma boys. And they ALL think they are WORTH IT.

:band

[908SSP]

They make less profit on a year to year average than your bank and who is screwin you worse?

[Dog Boy]

i don't know about you but I'm driving way less. I still am even tho prices have come down. I don't miss it a bit.

[mark norwine]

My only gripe is that a great deal of that profit is the result of enormous write-offs for "research and development".

Years & years & years & years of "research and development".

Have they developed anything new?

[goodwill559]

Well, until we get their side of the story, this profit bashing thread needs to calm down.

Never mind Eddie's lawyers, the expression chilling power of the oil industry's legal team and the thought of an imaginary law suit should be enough to encourage only positive threads and posts.

Carry on.
:MMM

[pickaguitar]

Who's gonna defend an oil company???

That's like defending _____

[michael.e]

Oi......

People need to relax



That said,
Without the oil companies, my car would be sitting in the driveway, not moving...ever

My point is that if you drive, you need them, you support them. If you start bitching about it, look at yourself as you are part of the problem [if you can call it that], and that problem goes much deeper than simply oil/companies. It is the way of life you signed up for.

So these evil companies are not researching ANYTHING else?? Go do a simpleton search around the net and take a look at what technologies these companies are working on.

[pir8matt]

Thats all they made? Time for a bailout!

[Telecaster62]

Are you kidding me, Exxon gas is $2.26 a gallon at the station by my house. I wanna kiss them and have Exxon's baby.

[thewhit]

Are you kidding me, Exxon gas is $2.26 a gallon at the station by my house. I wanna kiss them and have Exxon's baby.

Just wait until the election's over or our economy starts to improve. Gas prices will head upwards just as fast as they've come down. History repeats itself.......unfortunately.

[PinoyBoy]

$14,000,000,000 billion quarterly profit, another record, let's spin that ole tune.:munch

14,000,000,000 billion? So that's really 14,000,000,000,000,000,000? ;)

They're an organization that's profitable. Which means they know how to grow and/or manage expenses really well. Kudos to them. What's wrong with that?

So if a mom and pop shop made the same profit numbers... should we bash them as well?

[DaveF]

Just wait until the election's over or our economy starts to improve. Gas prices will head upwards just as fast as they've come down. History repeats itself.......unfortunately.


I thought exxon directly controlled gas prices. Why would they let them fall to near $2.00.

[michael.e]

And to think that Exxon is one of the smallest fish in this oil game....