Shouldn't Exxon Mobil of Texas, all the Drug Companies, Walmart Share their record profits for the Iraq War?
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You forgot about Halliburton and their numerous subsidiaries,that got no bid time everlasting government contracts all over the Middle East.They along with the ones you have mentioned are bleeding America dry.Some may think they have been accountable.But the people who keep track of these things say there is over 30 billion dollars unaccounted for.That was at end of 2005.Wonder what it is now.
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Oil companies like EXXON earned hundreds of billions of dollars last year--posted all time high profits. Don't know any working class people on the board of directors, tho. Me, I get to pay for my own health care outta my pocket. At least Bush gave me a tax cut last year for $260. Course, it all went to my dentist for the first visit.
913543
don't confuse liberals with the truth,  Bush is in the oil business, so liberals want something to attack bush on, and lies work well if told loud enougn  and long enough\n\nThe government over all ( congress) does control the oil industry,  they tell them where they can drill and where they can't.  They tell them how they can drill,  they control how the oil has to be transported, stored and treated.\n\nSo in basics, there is no way for them to complete really against each other using any different method, since they are all controled.  And they all pay about the same price for imported oil\n\nAnd oil companies are making alot of profit now because they can't explore for oil hardly anywhere,  off shore of Fla and California have been blocked in court,  they can't in alot of alaska.\n\nAnd if you look not at the total billions profit, but look at the precent of profit,  it is so low that if they were not that big, they would close,  if a store or other business operated at the percent of profit oil companies do they would be considered operating poorly.  It is only thier pure size that makes them appear to be making such a big profit.
606266
Good question.  If it does, it will be for the oil, same as with Iraq.  Or at least, that is what it seems to most people in the world.
947864
Are you aware we don't even know who make our energy policy. Oh, Cheney and some of his budies.  I wonder if the record profits the oil companies are making could have anything to do with Cheney and his secret policy energy making group?
548514
bacause BUSH OWNS THE OIL IN TEXAS...I think we should be looking at how much the gas "went up" over the world...I bet it hasn't and we are the only ones who are dealing with this...It is NOT the oil companies from iraq or overseas...it is from right here in the USA!!
315797
yup all of them. Oil lobbies are the second largest behind Defense contractors. Pharmaceutical are up there too
519292
It would be stupid if it was. But since when are wars smart?\n\nThere are so many alternatives to oil now. If a country went to war for oil, it would only be because it's leaders had some stake in the oil business themselves. And they would have had to scam their public into thinking it was for some other reason. A reason like national security, WMDs or some other nonesense.\n\nHmmmm, sounds familiar
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I suspect it may be about that much - the better part of the Gross National Product of Iraq is oil revenues so that sounds correct. The people of Iraq are the ones who have paid the cost on both sides of the conflict. I suspect that there is no way to reclaim the financial losses except through a long period of peace and prosperity in Iraq - Suni and Shiite factions would both need to work together to bring the oil back under the control of an elected coalition government that actually represents Iraq's interests instead of those of the US and other Foreign Nationals like the Saudi and British and other WTO nations - it would take about 10 years of peace but it can be done if the two factions can admit that they have been played for fools and set at each other's throats just to make the rich foreign nationals richer.
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The last I looked an organization called OPEC decides what they sell oil for; so how you can you say we loot the middle east?  We pay for the products we purchase, and not once have we used our military to secure assets.  Looting is a poor choice of words.  If you live in another nation we buy products from - get your government or companies to charge more for it - but recognize our companies will just buy it cheaper somewhere else.
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Yes, i agree. They did it for greed and oil. Haliburton makes billions a day because we went in. And They are buddied up with the Bush administration. It is sad how much power the big corporations have over our government.
687290
Never, they donate too much money to the campaigns of politicians and in outright bribes... they send them on (quite literally) million dollar vacations that no politician would ever give up, and pay millions to campaign "donations" and millions more to lobbyists.\n\nPeople are soo funny, buying into the propoganda of the oil companies... exxon makes 8 cents on the dollar at the point of shipping, gas companies have more than doubled their profits in the past 3 years... they make billions on refining, shipping, and selling the gas... that 8 cents is rhetoric and doesn't include a majority of the companies profits, only what they make from transporting crude from the mid east and south america to north america...\n\nAlso, the oil companies DIRECTLY control the price of refined gasoline... Do you know what the price of gas is in Venezuela right now?  Two weeks ago it was TWENTY AMERICAN CENTS per gallon... The cost of crude is ABSOLUTELY NOT UP THREE TIMES its cost in 2001, when gas was just over $1 a gallon... it's [crude] up less than double (a lot less than double) and yet the cost of gasoline is up about triple... how can anyone suggest that the oil giants aren't controlling the prices?  Federal taxes aren't up, nor are most state's taxes on oil/gas...
464248
Greed at it worst. I received an email last week asking that you do not buy Exxon/Mobil gas, saying that you can't ask people not to drive but if you boycott the biggest oil co out there that their prices will have to come down and the the other companies' will have to follow suit. if enough people were to do this it would work. The email also suggested you don't buy Exxon/Mobil until the price gets down to $1.30 gal
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It is actually the opposite. Despite all the profits (BILLIONS), the congress has given them a tax break!! Can you imagine?\n\nTheir CEOs get paid $1600 AN HOUR and we subsidize THEM!\n\n\nThen they turn around and 'finance' politicians campaigns!!! Why are we subsidizing oil companies when we cant even give people healthcare.\n\nWe need to have a law that taxes companies not people to give to companies
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I personally agree. But try telling that to private war contractors, the defense industry, wall street traders and investors, and big oil executives. This is one messed up world. And greed appears to be the most popular sin. By far. It is no contest. And that is the sole reason for ALL wars. Even wars that appear to be religious or cultural disputes. Money is behind every war.
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We were not at war when the policies were set that slammed us into the red, sadly.  It's a matter of a corrupt government that is controlled by special interest groups.  Ask yourself this:  if the energy and oil companies are reporting the greatest profits they have ever seen, why does our government continue to provide them with tax deferrals and outright payments in the form of subsidies?   Just how much has Haliburton made in Iraq?  And why haven't their cost over-runs, which go into the billions of dollars, been investigated?  Then ask yourself what companies the current administration worked for and will return to when they are out of office.   The connection becomes pretty clear.   We are no longer a democracy but a corporate oligarchy.  The citizens select which corporate representative will take power, not who represents them best.
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The gas prices can be helped if the pricks at exxon and all the other fuel manufacture's would lower the price.  They only reported a 50% increase in profit last year.  Yea I say they could do something about it!!!1