NEW YORK (Reuters) - Exxon Mobil Corp. on Thursday posted a quarterly profit of $9.9 billion, the largest in U.S. corporate history, as it raked in a bonanza from soaring oil and gas prices.
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$9.9 billion in profit....

why is gas at $0.89 then?

Because we live in a part of the world where FREE MARKET CAPITALISM is the game and PROFIT is the objective of companies (and people who work for them).

Profit is not a dirty word.

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Originally posted by rabbitjoker Profit is not a dirty word.

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Originally posted by EvilTree You'd make a good Ferengi RJ. Ohhhh... Must resist the urge to Photoshop RJ with Ferengi ears!

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Originally posted by EvilTree Ohhhh... Must resist the urge to Photoshop RJ with Ferengi ears!

aaaahhh.. don't resist

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Originally posted by rabbitjoker Because we live in a part of the world where FREE MARKET CAPITALISM is the game and PROFIT is the objective of companies (and people who work for them). Profit is not a dirty word.

neo-con

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Originally posted by rabbitjoker Profit is not a dirty word.

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Originally posted by simms327 NEW YORK (Reuters) - Exxon Mobil Corp. on Thursday posted a quarterly profit of $9.9 billion, the largest in U.S. corporate history, as it raked in a bonanza from soaring oil and gas prices. source $9.9 billion in profit.... why is gas at $0.89 then?

why in the last three years 16 refineries has been closed in North America?

For the last Decade oil companies started politics of the market pressure.

just for information our very own monopolists (PetroCanada/Shell/Sunoco/Esso) make an average 26 cents per litre,add taxes and you get the real gas price.


by the way - usual price per oil contract is 1 billion ,if i am investing my own money into this business i am about to get 15% out of it. so their profit doesnt seem to be THAAAAT huge

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Originally posted by psychosomatica neo-con

Neoconservatives are left-wingers who have come to believe in the virtues of the free market by observing how socialism is killing so many other countries.

It's funny how the Loony Left has tried to make "neo-con" into its fun little buzzword to insult free-market capitalists. I guess they abused the word "conservative" so much that it stopped being a dirty word, so they had to add "neo" to it in order to give it more punch. Trouble is, the term already existed before it made its way into Marxist circles, and the people they try to slap that label on (i.e. Bush) are very rarely neo-conservatives.

You want to know why gas costs 89 cents?
How about the 40-45% tax imposed on it?

Also, it's a pretty silly time to be bitching about the price of gas, since it's just come down about 30 cents in the past few weeks and is actually a little bit lower on average than it was before Katrina and so on.

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