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Big Oil - $9.9 bln in profit
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?
Oct-27-2005 18:06
rabbitjoker
aural sadist
Registered: Aug 2002
Location: Toronto, ON, CANADA
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).
Originally posted by chinamon
not true. i say "ugh"
but i am a tranny.
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Originally posted by kotsy
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Oct-27-2005 18:21
Moral Hazard
Oppressing the 99%
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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!
Rule of Aquisition 1248 - don't resist temptation
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Oct-27-2005 18:26
joinT
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Registered: Oct 2001
Location: always futurebound....
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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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Oct-27-2005 20:52
psychosomatica
500 posts. What a shame.
Registered: Jan 2003
Location: Toronto
quote:
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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Oct-27-2005 21:09
4-play
Listen to Fuad!!!
Registered: Jul 2003
Location: Mars
quote:
Originally posted by rabbitjoker
Profit is not a dirty word.
Oct-27-2005 21:14
Transmotion
Supreme tranceaddict
Registered: Dec 2004
Location: Toronto,Canada
Re: Big Oil - $9.9 bln in profit
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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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Oct-27-2005 21:24
DigiNut
You kids get off my lawn!
Registered: Dec 2002
Location: Toronto, Self-proclaimed Centre of the Universe
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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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Oct-27-2005 22:20
psychosomatica
500 posts. What a shame.
Registered: Jan 2003
Location: Toronto
heh. that was actually a subtle reference to LKD's thread. I'm a commerce student.
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