$36,000,000,000 in profits last year by one Oil company?
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That's Crazy for one company to make that much in profits over one Country.
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The whole system...OPEC on down to Exxon... all-time record profits for any company ever are EXTREMELY SUSPICIOUS... regardless of the situation... and it usually points to violations of anti-trust laws... is there one... I don't know... but it's suspicious...
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No, profits are the American way. I doubt you were even born when the oil companies were struggling back in the mid-seventies and early eighties. Aquisitions and mergers have made them some of the strongest American companies.\nThere are now more known oil reserves world wide than ever before. There is also more demand than ever before. Hence oil is over $72 per barrel. We could get all we need from the Canadian oil sand deposits and it would be cheap. But it is being shipped around the world.\nFigure that
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The oil companies are greedy
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Profit/Loss?  see below
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It's based on the revenue of the company for the last year.  The largest ones get on the list.
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bp, exxon, shell, texaco
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It would have to be Exxon Oil for paying $400 million to a CEO to retire.  Outrageous.
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Fill your tanks only half full uneless you need to make a long trip.You do not need to stock Bush's & Cheeny's gas on your shelf.This will cost the oil company's $3000,000,000.00 a day and will leave only half the room in the supply tanks To but in new gas.The tankers will be stacked off the coast trying to unload.I remember coffee going to $5.00 a pound in the seventys.People stopped buying and in two weeks the price was down to $1.50 a pound.Lets go Amercians the power is in your purse's and wallets "Let's Roll"
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The total revenue made by a company
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the problem is that people don't understand the difference between profit and profit margins.  When the cost of Oil (a tradeable commodity) doubles, oil companies will pay twice as much for oil and their cut becomes bigger (twice as big in fact)
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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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...just some quotes...\n\nBP\nCommenting to the BBC on its own figures, BP chief executive Lord Browne said the company's profits had been "magnified enormously by the high price of oil, high refining margins, and high gas prices". "We of course first of all make most of our money in what I think most people would regard as the wholesale market - that is the production of oil and gas - not in the refining and sales of petrol and so forth," Lord Browne said. http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/business/4688106.stm\n\nExxon Mobil, Shell Profits Soar as Oil Prices Surge to Record \nOct. 27 (Bloomberg) -- Exxon Mobil Corp., Royal Dutch Shell Plc and Marathon Oil Corp. posted record net income as demand growth and supply disruptions caused by Hurricanes Katrina and Rita lifted energy prices to unprecedented highs. Profit at Exxon Mobil, the world's biggest publicly traded oil producer, jumped 75 percent to an industry record of $9.92 billion, the company said today in a statement. The Hague-based Shell set the previous profit record about six hours earlier, when it said net income rose 68 percent to $9 billion.\nhttp://quote.bloomberg.com/apps/news?pid=10000006&sid=aaD5XaibDV48&refer=home\n\n...end of the quotes...\n\nPlease peruse the URL's to get the dates and maintain a true perspective.  Seems that when crude prices escalate and the oil companies have to charge more, they make even more...in otherwords they use the price hike as an excuse to overcharge us.  Of course we pay it.  There doesn't seem to be a better way to do this...If we federally regulate the oil prices then the supply will diminish. We will literally run out of gas.  If prices are regulated, the oil companies will only buy in quantities of which is still profitable leaving us with empty pumps like in the days of the gas shortages.  This is a free enterprise system and it just works that way.  If you want to be on the profit taking side instead of just the paying end, you are free to buy stock in the major oil companies as well.  \n\nWe are only victims in the system if we choose to be; not participating fully makes us a victim--participating empowers us.  It's like voting...if you don't vote you don't count.  Buy even a little stock in Exxon, Mobil, Shell, BP (just one share of even one of them) and see if your viewpoint doesn't change a little the next time you read news of crude prices rising or ethanol e-85 being adopted or automotive manufacturers moving towards hydrogen, etc.\n\nPlay the game.  Don't be a victim.
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Because Katrina and Rita destroyed the Gulf's output and the oil companies are greedy. I have nothing against a company making "profits" but "record profits" are an issue ESPECIALLY when they're being subsidized by the government due to some hearings in the Spring of 2005 when they said they just couldn't turn a profit without some government help. Kind of ironic that they now have RECORD profits isn't it?
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http://finance.yahoo.com/q/hp?s=^IRX&a=4&b=1&c=2006&d=4&e=18&f=2006&g=d
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Possibly some type of oil deal for companies where the Bush family owns alot of stock.
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I started boycotting exxon-mobile 1st quarter last year. Exxon got huge PROFITS from the 42% PROFIT they get per barrel of oil.  Products from the oil, is marketed everywhere, gas, diesel etc. I believe that enough people boycotted one company, it could work, Boycot until the allowed profit is reduced. Legally they get 42% no matter what the price per barrel is. The state you live in can get as much as 28% tax. 12% profit is for distribution, the remainder is for the station. The world stability determines price of a barrel of oil. But we could force a company to NOT GET THE HUGE   PROFIT FROM A SINGLE BARREL. OR -----------BOYCOT WALMART- hurt a huge corporation and money will talk.........