How do you feel about the Exxon's Chairman's $398Million retirement package?
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
589268
I think if we all had solidarity we could pick one of the big oil company's each month and not buy from them. Forcing them to scale down or sell their oil wholesale to the other company's. Let's say for the entire month of June we don't buy any products from Exxon/Mobile. That might get their attention.
740366
They do that, and probably get nice pensions after their retirements.  Or they were rich from the start...look at Bush...the dad...oil tycoon.
342689
its a joke. they should have portest for the high gas prices. shell and the others are having record 30 billion + profits.
111332
Here we go again.\n\nFunny how the top 10% of all the income earners in the US still pay 90% of the taxes. But we, once again, hear the typical spew from the lib answerers about taking money from the poor or the middle class. Hell, if ANYTHING it should be the middle class and the wealthy to complain that we are in a punnishment tax system, where the wealthy pay more of a percentage than everyone else. (As you can tell I am a proponent of the flat tax system, with no loopholes or deductions, everyone paying the same percentage)\n\nBut as for what this administration/party has helped do. The economy is in a slow growth cycle, enabling workers to find new jobs, companies to prosper more (providing more chances at advancement), and small businesses to take a chance and thrive again with the increased power of spending. Thank GOD this is not another sudden boom movement like in the 90's, resulting in the inevitable market and economic correction.\n\nReduction in tax rates to have more $$$ in the pockets for those that earn it (notice I did not say more money given to those who feel the government OWES them a living)\n\nIncreased defense efforts to help secure this country more than what it was before. Still much more to be done, but this is better than cutting defense like some other President that can easily be named.\n\nTried to put more control over retirement funds back to the individual, instead of being controled by an outdated and failing Social Security system. I still have hope that this will happen in some form in the future. Again, the government is not responsible, and should not be responsible for the monetary well being of any individual that is not employed by that government.\n\nThe list can go on. But many of the uber-libs will continue to have it go in one ear and out the other, per usual.
789839
Because they're bastards.  The retirement package is not free to the employer, and often the employer would rather not pay it.  It sucks.
86310
I don't know about the newsletter but the statement on the budget on her website intead bashes tax cuts for the oil companies and other corporate loopholes. Now I mat not agree wth how Hillary wants to spend our money. But I sure don't believe that any part of the Billions of dollars of tax cuts and excess profits of the oil companies is going to trickle down into my pocket.\n\nIn detailing the devastating budget cuts, Senator Clinton noted the irony of the majority’s willingness to finance corporate tax breaks while taking a budget axe to programs critical to working families.\n\n“Consider this, the $2.6 billion in new tax breaks for oil companies contained in the Energy Bill, one in a series of irresponsible corporate-tax giveaways, would cover the health care costs of an additional 1.7 million kids nationwide,” Senator Clinton said. “The Republican majority is also proposing an approximately $700 million cut in food stamps. Simply reinstating the superfund polluter tax, which forces companies that pollute to bear the expense of clean-up instead of average taxpayers, would alone generate $7.3 billion over the next ten years – more than ten times the cost of the food stamp cut.” \n\n“And if we simply took the $18 billion revenue raising package adopted by the Senate in its tax bill – which repeals, among other loopholes, another $4.3 billion tax giveaway to oil companies and cracks down on abusive corporate tax transactions, such as setting up offshore in tax havens like Bermuda to avoid paying U.S. taxes – we would be able to avoid the painful increases in costs to students striving to better themselves through a college education,” Clinton added. “Instead, we are looking at the largest cut to aid in the history of the student loan program. An average student saddled with $17,500 in student loans would pay up to $5,800 in additional payments under the Republican plan. Approximately 472,000 New York students would see an increase in costs.”\n\nClinton concluded by stating, “What the Republican majority has proposed is not what is best for America, because it undermines our long-held tradition of supporting families by providing the tools they need to make American the best it can be. The economic policies of the majority and this Administration defy both arithmetic and reality. It’s time that we go back to a conservative fiscal policy that pays as you go, doesn’t spend what you don’t have, and produces balanced budgets and surpluses that will enable us to prepare for the future. And it’s time that we return to policies that truly value all American families.”
994051
Big money backs republicans. It's sad but true. GW is all for the oil tycoons getting rich while we slave away and pay for crazy gas prices.
268432
I have to disagree with the guy above, about the 3 Trillion it is 8 Trillion and President Clinton balanced the budget in the late 90's with reserves. This debt has come from this administration solely, and they don't care. Why would a millionaire care about $2.50- $5.00 at the pump when they are making more money off of the stock options? The answer is #C and #D and the lenders are part of the problem for America they are the lobbyists that elected this administration.
612335
ok truckman, not all democrats are the (evil) liberals that you seem to imply they are. I think its wrong for oil companies to pay a man a going out the door bonus of 400 + million, and make billions in profits in a year, when there are millions of americans having to literally choose between food, medicine or gasoline. I think its wrong for the oil companies to still insist on zone pricing when they are making billions in profits.
789969
This is not going to be a popular answer, but I believe that this is the best recommendation... sell and put into a diversified mutual fund.   \n\nYou said that the $30,000 is a "small fortune" to you - meaning that this is a relatively large amount of money to you.  This means that you are relatively undiversified in your large "bet" in Sempra.  \n\nWill Sempra continue to go up? Good question.  Nobody knows. Sempra is a natural gas conglomerate that has done quite well, rising steadily and resisted the drop that other natural gas companies have due to the collapse in the price in natural gas this autumn. It is fairly defensive given its heavy utility dependence, but has some riskier elements to it. \n\nAsk yourself...  Are you willing to take this large, undiversified company-specific risk?  Are you counting on this money?  What would you do if the stock went down 30%?  Do you have needs for the cash flows in the near future?  Would this mess up your retirement plans?  Do you need to take on extra risk to boost you to your retirement goals because you're a bit behind? Are you so convinced of Sempra that you are willing accept the company specific risk, forego the benefits of diversification?  \n\nOnly you and your spouse can answer that, but I think your spouse is right.
817261
Earnings growth is declining, except that is, for the city bankers who are expecting bonus growth this year of 25%.\n\nThe influx of migrants from the Eastern European states is having it"s effect. They are prepared to work for a lower wage and this has a "knock on" effect. They are also prepared to sleep 3/4 to a room in cheap bed & breakfasts.\n\nInflation is at 2.5%, which is 0.5% above the target, so gordon will try to keep wage demands as low as possible.\n\nIt would be nice if, Gas - Electricity - Council Tax,etc. only increased by 2.5%, but no, these charges have gone through the roof.\n\nI read a report about a month ago, that Gas was so plentyful, that the importers were "paying" the distributors to take it off their hands. Did prices come down? Not on your life.\n\nAnyway, back to the subject, I think we should do as other countries are doing, and restrict the number of immigrant to fill only the jobs that are vacant.\n\nYou won"t get a job in America unless it can"t be filled by an American citizen. We should have a similar scheme.\n\nPut the onnus on employers to "prove" that they have tried everything possible to fill the vacancy using the indiginous population.\n\nWages going down, bills going up, more and more people getting into debt. It"s all going to explode soon.
586157
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"
491049
In our area, we are boycotting Exxon. Do not know if it is working yet, but boy does it feel good when I drive by Exxon & refuse to pay their high prices. We used email notification. Someone emailed me - then I emailed all my friends - then they emailed all their friends. Almost everyone I know is in on the Boycott. Exxon eat dirt not my money.
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It is NOT because of the war. It is because the people that run the oil companies are good friends of the President\n\nThe supply of oil is at an 8 year high. That means that we have more gas available today than we have had in 8 years.\nin any normal business, that would drive the price DOWN but, not oil.\n\nThe CEO of EXXON_MOBILE just got a $400 MILLION dollar bonus. That is 400,000,000 dollars in one year. That is his PERSONAL income, that dosn't even count the BILLIONS of dollars the oil companies make in PROFITS every year.\nIn the past 12 years the CEO of EXXON-MOBILE has made over  a BILLION (yes, a billion $1,000,000,000 dollars of personal income. We all paid for that by buying gas.\n\nThe reason we are paying so much is because the oil companies are greedy bastards that are making $100,000,000,000 of dollars in profits a year and our President is letting them get away with it.That is Anti-American!!!\n\nSome may argue that this is America and business people can charge what they want but in many cases, this one included, that is not really a fact. The oil business is supposed to be regulated. Not anyone can just decide to get into it. The government regulates who can join and who can't.\n\nThe fact is, we are paying WAY too much for gas and Bush'e buddys are literally "laughing all the way to the bank"\n\nAlso, we do not get most of our gas from the Middle East, that's what they try to make us believe. We only get 12-15% of our oil from the Middle East.\n40% of our oil comes from the US itself.\nWe also get a huge percent of our oil from Canada, Mexico and Venezuela.
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Houston will add another publicly traded energy company to its roster later this year, when Roswell, N.M.-based Hondo Oil & Gas moves its corporate headquarters here. \n\nThis latest corporate relocation, however, isn't likely to excite the Houston housing market too much. \n\nOnly one Hondo employee -- C.B. McDaniel, company secretary and counsel -- will be moving from New Mexico to Houston. The corporate office eventually will house four workers. \n\nThe company's president and chief executive, John Hoey, won't be moving here. He'll continue to live in Pennsylvania. \n\nStill, Paul Hayes, an analyst with Oppenheimer & Co., said the move only makes sense. "Roswell is not exactly the transportation center of the Western Hemisphere." \n\nWith revenues of only $44,000 in fiscal 1995, Hondo Oil & Gas has never exactly been a blue chip stock. \n\nBut the chairman of this oil and gas producer is Robert O. Anderson, the former chairman of Atlantic Richfield Co. and a legend in the Oil Patch. \n\nAnd the company became the talk of the industry when it sold off all its other oil and gas assets and bet the ranch on one investment, development of the Opon gas field in Colombia. \n\nThe partners in the project, led by Chicago-based Amoco Corp., planned to build a $59 million pipeline and sell 80 million cubic feet of gas a day to Ecopetrol, Colombia's state-owned oil company. \n\nImpressed by the field's prospects and by the Anderson mystique, investors pushed up Hondo shares to a high of 241/8 in August. \n\n"This was a good project," McDaniel said. "It made sense." \n\nBut then the Colombian government changed the terms of the deal, insisting on a lower gas price ceiling and less-favorable pipeline tariff terms. \n\nSuddenly, the whole project was in jeopardy. Last week, Hondo's stock plunged to a low of 9¼. \n\nUnder the current terms, "we would think it probably would not go forward," McDaniel said. "We don't know at the moment." \n\nBy Wednesday, the company's stock had rebounded to 107/8 on word that London-based Lonrho PLC, the company's chief creditor, had completed its plan to gain control over 77 percent of Hondo Oil & Gas voting stock. \n\nAnderson will stay on as chairman of the company, though he and his family will retain only a minority stake.
928144
If you were lucky enough to create a savings for your retirement great! But for many others, living day to day on a minimal benifit is terrible.They  are our great survivors of the drought, wars, depression, etc...they have given many things in our life for us to live better. The governement should at least give them a proper income raise each year that coincide with their pay raises !!!!!