FUCKING MOTHERFUCKING EXXON POSTS RECORD FUCKING PROFIT $40 BILLION

[Proud2BAmurkin]

This shit needs to end

http://money.cnn.com/news/newsfeeds/articles/djf500/200802010905DOWJONESDJONLINE000517_FORTUNE5.htm

[rockymountaindem]

1. Yeah

Anybody who thinks prices are up because of "supply chain difficulties" or a shortage of oil need a reality check. We're paying exactly what OPEC and the oil companies want us to pay.

[Blue_In_AK]

2. Yes, and they're STILL fighting

the Prince William Sound fishermen to avoid paying the punitive damages awarded after the EXXON VALDEZ went aground. Waiting for them all to die off, I'm guessing. They're bastards.

[HughMoran]

3. Really disgusting isn't it?

:mad:

[HereSince1628]

4. Don't worry, oil has peaked, even with higher prices, their future holds

diminishing returns from oil revenue.

[Buzz Clik]

5. Oy. It's hard to express this clearly and bluntly enough.

But this is on the right track:

[SammyWinstonJack]

6. Pigs at the trough. Greedy Rat Bastards!

Thanks georgie, you FILTH!

[sharp_stick]

7. But, they still NEEEEED those subsidies

how can we expect poor oil companies to get by on this trifling little bit of money without giant tax subsidies.

I really hate these pricks, they make personal injury lawyers look appealing.

[One_Life_To_Give]

8. They are making same ratio as

Johnson and Johnson
Microsoft
Intel

Guess we better stop them too.

[TreasonousBastard]

18. A lot of people here seem to think that...

ALL corporate profits are bad.

[ORDagnabbit]

9. so help make it end.... eat the rich.

[Fox Mulder]

10. I agree.

It does need to end.

We need alternative energy sources now.

[fasttense]

11. Corpoarte rats make the highest profits in the history of this country

while veterans returning from the Iraq war sleep under overpasses. There is something very wicked about this.

[Sarah Ibarruri]

12. Amen, my friend. AMEN! That's why I'm saying over and over....

... please let's all get involved, try to run for local offices, get involved in everything, from PTAs to local Democratic Party, to everything. We need to change all this, but we can't do it by just sitting home or at work and doing nothing. We need to change it by doing. Writing letters, boycotting, getting involved everywhere, spreading our message, developing a close relationship with candidates or politicians already in office, helping people to register to vote, explaining to people what bills *REALLY* mean, etc. If we all try to impart knowledge on everyone we come in contact with, for example, can you IMAGINE the repercussions of that?

But I can guarantee you that if we do nothing, everything will just stay the same.

[cloudythescribbler]

13. fuck!

[RiverStone]

14. damn right on this one...

These fucks have no limit on greed and arrogance.

Wish there was an easy way to end it.

Only thing I can fathom - bike or get an electric car.

[Thrill]

15. Shit ends with Edwards as AG

[Nederland]

16. Putting on flame suit

Exxon hasn't broken any laws. They are a company that deals in an increasingly scarce commodity, and their profits reflect that. Anyone who thinks that Edwards or anyone else is going to do anything about this is fooling themselves. The last thing Democrats want right now is to be seen as a bunch of communists whose goal is to ignore markets and redistribute money away from people and companies they don't like and toward people and companies they do like.

Ok, flame away.

[TreasonousBastard]

17. No flames here-- I am a bit sick at that profit, but...

we're the ones still buying the gas and refusing to take the bus, or to ask for bus service.

Stop stamping little feet at Exxon's profit and tell your neighbors to lower their thermostats and buy smaller cars.

Oh, we can't do that? OK, just keep on blaming it on the oil companies and keep on paying higher prices.

One other small thing-- how much of that profit came from all that mechanized, floatin and flying stuff over there in Iraq? The Pentagon doesn't wnat you to know what its fuel bill is.

[renate]

20. the increase in prices happened too quickly for most to adjust

Mass transport is a joke in most cities. Few people live on bus lines, and this is a bad time for many people to buy a new car, what with the economy heading south. I'm not going to tell my neighbors to take out loans for smaller cars if they're worried about keeping their jobs.

I don't disagree that using less gas would be the best way for us to reduce the oil-company profits we complain about, but people have to get to work or school or to the grocery store and they can't all afford a new hybrid car to do that in.

[nancyharris]

22. Not to mention

Exxon pays $16 Billion federal and state taxes on that profit.

[hulklogan]

19. Goddamm capitalists! n/t

[mtnsnake]

21. Well, they had to artificially raise gas prices obscenely NOW so they could drop them by September

and buy as many stupid voters as they can.

Next September and October, when the brainless half of this country sees gas prices "tumble" from $3.50 or $4 per gallon down to $2.50 per gallon, the idiots will think Repblicans are the greatest people on earth. These gas fluctuations are always choreographed to coincide with elections and the sheeple vote with their pocketbooks.