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General => The Superdeep Borehole => Topic started by: Flannel Boy on February 01, 2007, 03:25:17 PM

Title: So... Exxon made $39.5 billion last year
Post by: Flannel Boy on February 01, 2007, 03:25:17 PM
(http://www.prospect.org/web/galleries/default-image/exxonprofit.jpg)
Title: Re: So... Exxon made $39.5 billion last year
Post by: Mupepe on February 01, 2007, 03:26:34 PM
That's pretty awesome.  I should start investing in Exxon.
Title: Re: So... Exxon made $39.5 billion last year
Post by: Flannel Boy on February 01, 2007, 03:27:17 PM
Quote from: Mupepe on February 01, 2007, 03:26:34 PM
That's pretty awesome.  I should start investing in Exxon.
You should have invested years ago.
Title: Re: So... Exxon made $39.5 billion last year
Post by: Mupepe on February 01, 2007, 03:28:23 PM
Years ago I was broke, young(er) and stupid(er).
Title: Re: So... Exxon made $39.5 billion last year
Post by: Tauntaun on February 01, 2007, 03:41:05 PM
Did anyone else's sphincter tingle, not in a good way, at this number?
Title: Re: So... Exxon made $39.5 billion last year
Post by: Phoenix Dark on February 01, 2007, 04:38:00 PM
And?
Title: Re: So... Exxon made $39.5 billion last year
Post by: Tauntaun on February 01, 2007, 04:40:07 PM
Quote from: Phoenix Dark on February 01, 2007, 04:38:00 PM
And?

You don't feel your wallet crying out in pain from the fisting?
Title: Re: So... Exxon made $39.5 billion last year
Post by: Phoenix Dark on February 01, 2007, 04:45:58 PM
It's actually not a lot of money for Exxon

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When you consider the billions they lost a few years ago
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People who fall onto the "ohhh a company is making TOO MUCH monies" annoy me. How much money is "too much"?  :lol
Title: Re: So... Exxon made $39.5 billion last year
Post by: Tauntaun on February 01, 2007, 04:51:23 PM
When they jack the price and make record profits.
Title: Re: So... Exxon made $39.5 billion last year
Post by: Phoenix Dark on February 01, 2007, 04:54:50 PM
Is that a fact or an opinion?
Title: Re: So... Exxon made $39.5 billion last year
Post by: Tauntaun on February 01, 2007, 04:59:29 PM
I believe all the major oil companies had record profits last year.  I'll get some facts for ya though.

Edit: http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/11098458/ (http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/11098458/)
Title: Re: So... Exxon made $39.5 billion last year
Post by: Phoenix Dark on February 01, 2007, 05:02:42 PM
Why is it so unfathomable to people that oil companies would make - gasp - huge profits? I don't understand this way of thinking. There are 300 million people in this country and most of them rely on their car to get them to work as well as other places. In order to go to these places, they need gas. When compared to other nations the US has a low record of car pooling and bus riding...

Title: Re: So... Exxon made $39.5 billion last year
Post by: Tauntaun on February 01, 2007, 05:06:32 PM
Yes but that's been true for a long time.  The only factor that changed in the equation was the price of gas.
Title: Re: So... Exxon made $39.5 billion last year
Post by: brawndolicious on February 01, 2007, 05:07:46 PM
For those that use the ignore feature, PD's last 4 posts were about distinguished mentally-challenged.

Does Exxon have to pay restitution to all the people they screwed over (not californians, but investors and employees)?
Title: Re: So... Exxon made $39.5 billion last year
Post by: Catz on February 01, 2007, 05:08:27 PM
I think people look at that number and think that Exxon could have afforded to cut a couple billion or so from that profit and bring the gas price down a few cents more.

But that won't solve the root of the problem. What we need to do is stop depending so much on energy imports from foreign nations and become a more self sufficient nation with fuel alternatives, like Brazil. They are almost completely energy independent now by using home grown ethanol fuels.
Title: Re: So... Exxon made $39.5 billion last year
Post by: Tauntaun on February 01, 2007, 05:19:21 PM
Quote from: Catz on February 01, 2007, 05:08:27 PM
I think people look at that number and think that Exxon could have afforded to cut a couple billion or so from that profit and bring the gas price down a few cents more.

But that won't solve the root of the problem. What we need to do is stop depending so much on energy imports from foreign nations and become a more self sufficient nation with fuel alternatives, like Brazil. They are almost completely energy independent now by using home grown ethanol fuels.

And also a cleaning out the lobbyists in D.C.
Title: Re: So... Exxon made $39.5 billion last year
Post by: Mupepe on February 01, 2007, 05:36:12 PM
Quote from: Catz on February 01, 2007, 05:08:27 PM
I think people look at that number and think that Exxon could have afforded to cut a couple billion or so from that profit and bring the gas price down a few cents more.

But that won't solve the root of the problem. What we need to do is stop depending so much on energy imports from foreign nations and become a more self sufficient nation with fuel alternatives, like Brazil. They are almost completely energy independent now by using home grown ethanol fuels.
You're so smart and I love you so much. :heartbeat


Anyways, it doesn't really bother me and I don't get outraged because we're still the morons putting all this money in their pocket.
Title: Re: So... Exxon made $39.5 billion last year
Post by: Phoenix Dark on February 01, 2007, 06:29:48 PM
Quote from: Catz on February 01, 2007, 05:08:27 PM
I think people look at that number and think that Exxon could have afforded to cut a couple billion or so from that profit and bring the gas price down a few cents more.

But that won't solve the root of the problem. What we need to do is stop depending so much on energy imports from foreign nations and become a more self sufficient nation with fuel alternatives, like Brazil. They are almost completely energy independent now by using home grown ethanol fuels.

Finally someone who's above knee jerk reactions and realizes the root of the problem, which has nothing to do with Exxon
Title: Re: So... Exxon made $39.5 billion last year
Post by: Mupepe on February 01, 2007, 06:34:02 PM
Quote from: Phoenix Dark on February 01, 2007, 06:29:48 PM
Quote from: Catz on February 01, 2007, 05:08:27 PM
I think people look at that number and think that Exxon could have afforded to cut a couple billion or so from that profit and bring the gas price down a few cents more.

But that won't solve the root of the problem. What we need to do is stop depending so much on energy imports from foreign nations and become a more self sufficient nation with fuel alternatives, like Brazil. They are almost completely energy independent now by using home grown ethanol fuels.

Finally someone who's above knee jerk reactions and realizes the root of the problem, which has nothing to do with Exxon
Just quit it, PD.  My baby isn't going to let you in her pants.
Title: Re: So... Exxon made $39.5 billion last year
Post by: Phoenix Dark on February 01, 2007, 06:37:44 PM
Unlike you I'm not into being involved with other people's girlfriends/wives
Title: Re: So... Exxon made $39.5 billion last year
Post by: Diablos on February 01, 2007, 08:12:56 PM
Instead of being a crybaby and saying Exxon should have drove fuel prices down by a buck or something, I'll just say that with all the money they're sitting on, they could invest in alternative fuel sources. Not just some here and there bullshit, I mean SERIOUSLY investing in a future in alternative fuel source(s).
Title: Re: So... Exxon made $39.5 billion last year
Post by: Vizzys on February 01, 2007, 08:14:43 PM
When I think exxon I think oil spill.
Title: Re: So... Exxon made $39.5 billion last year
Post by: Phoenix Dark on February 01, 2007, 08:15:02 PM
Quote from: Diablos on February 01, 2007, 08:12:56 PM
Instead of being a crybaby and saying Exxon should have drove fuel prices down by a buck or something, I'll just say that with all the money they're sitting on, they could invest in alternative fuel sources. Not just some here and there bullshit, I mean SERIOUSLY investing in a future in alternative fuel source(s).

Why should they? Is it their responsibility as a business to do that, or is it government's responsiblity?
Title: Re: So... Exxon made $39.5 billion last year
Post by: Mupepe on February 01, 2007, 08:22:03 PM
Quote from: Phoenix Dark on February 01, 2007, 06:37:44 PM
Unlike you I'm not into being involved with other people's girlfriends/wives
Holy shit, that's hurtful.
Title: Re: So... Exxon made $39.5 billion last year
Post by: Flannel Boy on February 01, 2007, 08:44:01 PM
Diablos that's like asking the tobacco companies to invest in products that help smokers quit smoking. Even if the companies make some money with a patch or something, it will be nowhere the amount they lose in tobacco revenue. Exxon is not going to make as much money with some alternative system as they will with oil.
Title: Re: So... Exxon made $39.5 billion last year
Post by: Phoenix Dark on February 01, 2007, 09:03:09 PM
Why do people expect businesses to...not act like businesses? It's sad that so many Americans have a negative attitude towards business in general and aren't willing to give them the respect and benefit of the doubt they deserve.

A business's main function is to generate profit, while following the rules and not illegally blocking competition. They are not supposed to live up to your opinions on what they "should" be doing with their profits, and you are in no position to decide how much profit is "too" much profit.