Exxon Mobil posted the 5th largest quarterly profit of any company ever in the history of retail. They are robbing us blind, and laughing all the way. You know why they are laughing? Because they are jackin up the gas prices and making HUGE money while we blame the president. \n\nFords Motor Company is making HUGE profits by laying off workers and sending jobs to India, and they are laughing at us. Why are they laughing at us? Because they are making money off cars but paying Indian workers crap, while we blame the President for this problem. \n\nCongress is wasting money on wars and Fema disasters, foreign aid, lowering taxes and alaskan bridges. They are making this country go broke and they are laughing all the way. Why are they laughing? Because they can spend anything they want, and we blame the president.\n\nI just dont understand how you expect anyone to be held accountable if you dont hold their feet to the fire. Its time to find the REAL culprits of our problems and fix it correctly
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To be american, means to be stupid.\nThat's why they blame things on wrong people.
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HAHAHA... it's funny... the money that got him elected came from oil... he's just acting like he's all upset about it... I've not seen any action from him on it...
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Your mistake is basic: you're presuming that the oil in the ground belongs to America.  It doesn't.  It belongs to ExxonMobil, BP, etc.  Think they'd want to lower profits to benefit us?  HAHAHAHAHAHAHA
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Take a look at leader. He leads by example.\n\nPeople are quick to blame the government because of lack of trust in the government and that programs actually work. This is not a Bush issue; this goes back to Clinton and before. \n\nI agree, people who buy SUVs and complain about the price of gas are morons. Actually, anyone who drives and complains about gas prices are hypocrites. We want lower health care costs but our premiums are so high, mainly because insurance is skyrocketing and the cost of medical care is rising; some say because of legal costs but mainly it's the trickle-down effect from spending on research and advancements in medicine. It costs more to be healthy these days. \n\nPlus we're now conditioned to think that a magic pill or some miraculous surgery will cure us or that by the time that we are old, we'll have a solution to whatever our malady is.  I don't know why that is, but i'm sure that's on people's minds.\n\nActually, I don't know if I would say "stupid" as much as I would say "ignorant".
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The two are independent.  400M was probably quite a bit, but it's a drop in the bucket considering that Exxon has sales of 370B last year.  So, if he gave all that back, it would have a .1% affect on gas prices.  So, maybe a few cents.\n\nHis "retirement package" was funded in large part through a sort of modified 401k, so it's not like Exxon just gave him 400M cash.  It was mostly stock options (which take value away from the shareholders, not away from the people buying gas) and some other company things, like use of their jet.\n\nWe pay a lot of gas prices for completely different reasons, but yeah, it's kind of annoying.  Oil companies make about 10% profit, so that's about all they can reduce gas prices by.  Not enough for most people anyhow.\n\nhttp://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=5365439
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China and India are paying their workers a few dollars a day.  These countries are not worth modeling our actions on.  China executes 3500 people a year for crimes as simple as shoplifting.\n\nAmerica is far from Bankrupt.  But we did take a HUGE hit when the dot com busted up the stock market a few years ago.  America not only lost several millions of tax revenue, but had to give millions more in tax rebates to individuals who lost investments.\n\nI think it is extreamly hypocritical to complain about American foreign policy while enjoying the rewards that policy provides.  Do you use oil?  Do you buy shoes, clothes, and other products made overseas?  Do you want your country that has been formed by millions of immigrants to stand idle when horrible things are taking place in their former countries?  Why do so many people complain about 2500 soldier deaths within the last 5 years when in that same time period more than a half million Americans have been murdered, died in alcohol related accidents, and lung cancer, just to name a few preventable deaths?\n\nMy question is why are Americans ruining their own lives while riding the media bandwagon telling us to blame our leaders.\n\nAmerica will survive and will do it helping (and hurting) many other countries along the way.  We will learn to judge our actions on a larger scale (think centuries instead of years).  And it's going to get a lot worse before it gets better as we stretch and learn.  America is still one of the youngest countries on the planet.
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For the rest of this year, DON'T purchase ANY gasoline from The two biggest companies (which now are one), EXXON and MOBIL. If they are not selling any gas, they will be inclined to reduce their prices. If they reduce their prices, the other companies will have to follow suit. But to have an impact, we need to reach literally millions of Exxon and Mobil gas buyers. It's really simple to do!! Now, don't wimp out on me at this point...keep reading and I'll explain how simple it is to reach millions of people!!\n\nI am sending this note to about thirty people. If each of you send it to at least ten more (30 x 10 = 300)... and those 300 send it to at least ten more (300 x 10 = 3,000) ... and so on, by the time the message reaches the sixth generation of people, we will have reached over THREE MILLION consumers! . .\n\nIf those three million get excited and pass this on to ten friends each, then 30 million people will have been contacted! If it goes one level further, you guessed it..... THREE HUNDRED MILLION PEOPLE!!!\n\nAgain, all you have to do is send this to 10 people. That's all. (If you don't understand how we can reach 300 million and all you have to do is send this to 10 people.... well, let's face it, you just aren't a mathematician. But I am... so trust me on this one.)
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By now i think every one is as riled up for their own cause as it gets,  some of us are tired of the same old attack adds as we see very little real differences in those running since they all authorise attack and mudd slinging, its like chose the lesser of two evils. I made my decisions a couple of months ago on all the issues. While gas prices may influence some only history will tell if it was connected to the elections or not. I think OPEC looks for excuses to exploit us, anyway.
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Gas prices will never go down. You might see a small reduction after a massive increase, but $3 a pop is now the price. I bet you will see $3.50 a gallon by the end of summer.\n\nWith your suggestions I believe you think American corporate price gouging is the cause for high prices. Most people point to supply and demand. But if price gouging is a factor, I fear there is no solution.  That is what Capitalism is all about.\n\nMost of middle America hates the prices, but loves the profits they are accruing with stocks in their 401K. ExxonMobile made $10 million in one month, made $1 billion last quarter. ConnocoPhilips made about 1/3 that in profits as well.\n\nThere just aren't enough people in the country that don't profit from selling gas to go beyond complaining about the price.  A boycott will not work.\n\nThe only thing we can hope for is the Feds suspend their gas tax for awhile.\n\nEDIT:\nOn another note, we Americans are too damn hypocritical.  We want the world to be democratic & capitolistic, but when oil prices rise, we want our people and government to act more with socialism values.  People chanted in the streets "No blood for oil!" when protesting in the 1990's, but now Americans want their oil.  What the hell is wrong with us?
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This is all trash to get the focus on illegal immigrants. The economy is going to hell because of a trillion dollar deficit from the pointless war and that is incomparable compared to the millions illegals mooch off the health care system.\n\nhttp://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=-8260059923762628848\n\n\nThe rate of illegal immigration has not changed, yet all the stories suddenly switched to illegal immigrant problems in the news. This is a political switch for when blame time comes and the economy is doing horrible, people will blame immigrants instead of the massive accumulated debt killing our soldiers to protect some random countries oil for exxon.\n\n\n\nillegals work cheap. The companies get more profits. The companies have to pay more taxes. Taxes pays the illegals healthcare. Blame the companies that employ them cheap if you have a problem with that and demand they give them healthcare like any citizen. Right now they work for slave labor prices and get hurt, just like anyone else.\n\n\nThe fence will be the largest most vandalized project ever and a waste of tax money. Immigrants what a better life forever. Fences won't stop them.
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Our annual trade deficit has ballooned to $726 billion and our federal budget deficit in fiscal 2006 is $423 billion -- an alarming 3.2 percent of gross domestic product, or national economic output. Workers' wages have been stagnant for 20 years and now they are actually declining. Employer-provided health care is shrinking and 46 million people -- most of them from working families -- have no health care coverage.\n\nOur nation is headed in the wrong direction, and now is the time to take steps to turn it around.\n\nInstead of giving more tax breaks to the wealthy and allowing multinational corporations to ship our best jobs offshore, we have to repeal the Bush tax cuts and insist that Congress repeal federal tax laws that reward corporations that send jobs offshore!$6.592 trillion: Federal debt on June 26, 2003, the day Josh Bolten became director of the Office of Management and Budget.\n\n$8.364 trillion: Federal debt today.\n\nIn the Bush administration, this is grounds for a promotion. On January 26, 2006, Bush said in one of his carefully crafted press conferences, "Our economy is growing, it is strong. This economy has created millions of new jobs, yet it's an economy that is changing rapidly." The jobs being created are a result of unconstitutional looting of the people's treasury by Congress for votes. These are government jobs which lure the people into more and more dependency upon mother government. With our major job sectors destroyed because of NAFTA and GATT, Americans are desperate for any sort of decent paying jobs. It will get worse now that Congress and Bush sold us out again with CAFTA. Sadly, Americans are taking jobs with the Nazi, draconian and worthless Department of Homeland Security. Once those pay checks start rolling in, they will not bite the hand that feeds them. This is how slaves are made. The late, great American, Ezra Taft Benson, wrote in his work, An Enemy Hath Done This, that America will be destroyed from within by Americans. His prediction so many decades ago is materializing right before our eyes.
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You do have some good points here,however I will have to say that alot of the consumers are greedy because the world has made them this way.If none of us were greedy then non of us would have to work so hard to make ends meet in order to barely survive.Grocery store for example:If the government was not greedy then the grocery stores would not be charged such high prices for the products and therefore we would not have to pay such high prices for food,we would therefore have more to share with others.Now you take the average person that is barely getting by and expect them to share what they do have?I do not think this is greed.Now you take the rich man that takes high dollar vacations or has two,three or more classic cars and still buying but will not donate a cent to the needy.This is greed.Now lets look at some more interesting facts,Some may disagree with me but I am entitled to my own opinion as with anyone else is entitled to their own opinions.Gas companies,The cost of gas has sky rocketed as we all know this.Some say the gas companies are getting rich due to what they hear on the profits of the companies.These profits or dollar figures are based on what the companies made over the last quarter.Is what nobody is looking at is the expenses of the companies.All of these companies are in debt and owe a fortune.Yes it is true that the made billions last year or last quarter but they also spent billions.The problem with this is the government all the way up to the president of the United States and the ones before him and so on.This country is so far in debt to other countries that there is no way to ever repay all the money.Sure,the country pays out alot of money each year but is what is not accounted for until next year is what we are barrowing at the same time.This is not greed either,It is called out of control and no way to recover.So to sum it all up,The only greed that I see is the rich one that thinks they have it all and has never worked a hard days work in their life and thinks they are way over everyone else and refuses to share.\n\nenough said\n\nGood luck and God bless you
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pachl@sbcglo: Why is it when the government is trying to help poor people do better things and help them that Republicans cry about it, but when Republicans try to help companies by giving them more money, it's ok?\n\nOil companies can use the tax cuts to pad their profits, just as easy as welfare recipients can use their money for cigarettes.. the only difference is one is probably a few billion dollars and the other is $4... \n\nThe fact is you don't know any more what the oil companies are doing with the extra money than you do the welfare people...
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The boycott will work, Exxon won't let themselves go out of business!  We're not asking for free gas, and we're not trying to run them out of business!  We just want them to stop getting away with so much profit!  And there is no way anyone can dare tell me that they don't make profit, here is a NY Times article about the CEO's freakin salary, this gets me so FIRED UP!!!\n\nhttp://www.nytimes.com/2006/04/15/business/15pay.html?ex=1302753600&en=89993dc20e1e7e97&ei=5090&partner=rssuserland&emc=rss
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Republicans already have the oil giants in Washington.  That's why the prices went down when they were running for office.  But they did jack up the prices while the Republicans reigned -- and made $9 BILLION in profits in one QUARTER.  Working people had to get rid of their cars and take the bus.\n\nSupport the new government.  They will need your ideas and help.
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Hey! It's not all about the American People it's all about this green stuff they call money. \n\nThey always have some dumb butt lame excuse for raising the prices. \n\nMy joke is this!! OH MY GOSH!! OH MY GOSH!! President Bush let a fart, it may very well put a hole in the ozone layer lets raise the gas prices, it will take more people off of the streets and reduce air pollution. that's how stupid it's getting to be\n\nOkay..now that I am here...Gunther...get me the soap box lil man LOL!!!!! He's a good cat. LOL\n\nYou know this gas price thing is killing our economy. I just watched the news tonight. People are limiting their driving. They are limiting their entertainment and other things so that they can conserve gas so that they can get to work to earn money so that they can keep STUPID BUTT GASOLINE IN THEIR TANKS!! That is going to drive prices up everywhere because people are not shopping as often, they aren't going to other places as often and in order to keep business rolling grocery prices will jump the cost of entertainment will jump\n\nHELLOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO! ANYONE OUT THERE??? Holy smokes. The almighty buck is killing the American people. We are being smothered by it. We are being smothered by the greed of the government. \n\nAs far as Bush goes. Don't know . Don't know. I just don't. I think he needs to step in and put a stop to this! It's really getting to be out of hand. I believe that many things are going to happen. The crime rate will go up people are going to start siphoning gas tanks\n\nIt's going to be really really pretty out there. \n\nOkay, I am off the soapbox now. Come here Gunther..put it back where you got it from and come get your treat. LOL!! \n\nOkay, I had to add a stupid corny humorous twist to it ;)
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Some of the prices are artificially inflated. \n\nHowever, gas prices in the US are still lower than in most countries. Go to Germany or England and pay the equivilant we pay per gallon for a liter. \n\nI do think that many of the companies are taking advantage of teh recoupment of defense oil reserves and the war against terror in order to boost their profits.\n\nOn a final note, though, the war in Iraq was not about oil. If it were, we would be getting oil from Iraq. We are not, yet at least. Much of what excess Iraq is producing is going towards paying their reparations to many countries.