And you wonder why your paying so much at the pump! We're talking $9.28 Billion in PROFITS, yes, PROFITS. That's after all costs of shipping and whatever are factored in. And this is only in 3 months! They're profiting more than 3 BILLION a month. And you wonder why schools are falling apart, healthcare and social security are non existent, and most of. This is just EXXON too, which is just ~1~ of many Oil Tycoons. And Exxon is still spending money to fix that Valdez disaster, or their profits would be higher. I ask you, since when did hogging up all the money in America, only to claim we can't fund programs for the PEOPLE, become accepted? People get soooo pissed off when Rosie says 9/11 was an inside job......but let C.E.O's profit BILLIONS only to watch poverty unfold right before their eyes is accepted? Man, the back of our money should say 'In Media We Trust', not God. Google Search - 'Exxon 2007 Quarter Profits' .... or see ...http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/
2007-05-07 16:22:01 · 9 answers · asked by rob20850 3 in News & Events ➔ Current Events
Do you know the Exxon Valdex never paid a single cent into the funds that created the disaster in Alaske or, the clean-up and fines. They said they would have it in the court system for another century, not paying anything for it. We paid.
2007-05-07 22:07:28 · answer #1 · answered by cowboydoc 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Are you serious? This is still America isn't it? This is the country where we tell the world and our children that if you apply yourselves and work hard, the the sky's the limit, isn't it?
Or should we be telling them that if you work hard and become successful you will be punished? That you don't have a right to the money you earned. That though you are paying more then 50 cents for every dollar you make in taxes, you are not paying enough. That you should be fined for being successful for providing goods and services that the public DEMAND!
What you are suggesting is socialism by increments. The state takes a little here, a little more there. The state decides that the rich shouldn't be that rich, and maybe they should pass laws to take the money from the rich and redistribute the wealth.
It is a very subtle cultural revolution in which the have nots are given the right to take from the haves. In less than 100 years we have gone from a income tax free society to a 55% tax bracket... and are we any better off? Has limiting how much people can earn fixed anything? Fed anyone? No it hasn't.
You brought up education. Here in California, by law, 40% of the states budget must go to education. That's 40% of the budget of the richest state in the union, and our education system is one of the worst in the country. Taking money from Exxon and dumping it into a spectacularly failed system is just... stupid.
Money is not why education is such a problem, money is not why the poor don't get fed, Exxon is not the bad guy here.
2007-05-07 17:40:41 · answer #2 · answered by David P 3 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Exxon is a business, and a business goal should be making money. You don't like Exxon, boycott Exxon and buy other brands. Don't like the mess they left from Valdez, organize a protest, start a grass root organization. May be you should move to a socialist state so everybody is equal.....you think..
2007-05-07 16:43:35 · answer #3 · answered by bernie l 1 · 1⤊ 0⤋
They should put oil under government control, and let the companies bid for it. Or the government can declare a state of emergency and just take it. Like in world war two. It shocks me that we have control of a huge oil country(Iraq), and we are not pumping it dry. As far as 9/11 being an inside job, thats just stupid. People said the same thing about Pearl Harbour.
2007-05-08 05:22:03 · answer #4 · answered by jawa12 2 · 0⤊ 1⤋
Should the cable company be allowed to charge 40.00 a month and not put what I want to see on TV.
supply and demand. It's legal. You don't have to buy gas, you can walk or ride a bike to your destination.
It really sucks but that's life, until we stop depending on foreign oil, we're screwed
2007-05-07 17:17:26 · answer #5 · answered by The Forgotten 6 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Hell yes i have 300 shares of exxon mobil stock the more money they make the more money i make get smart people invest in oil stocks..and buy a hybird that`s what i did....
2007-05-07 20:59:55 · answer #6 · answered by Anonymous · 2⤊ 1⤋
In a country that screams capitalism - yes
2007-05-07 16:44:09 · answer #7 · answered by RX 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
No, they shouldn't be.
However, they are a publicly traded -for profit- company. Who's going to regulate that?
2007-05-07 16:31:16 · answer #8 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 1⤋
SHOULD THEY be allowed to profit? Hell no!
WILL THEY be allowed to profit? Hell yes.
2007-05-07 16:28:39 · answer #9 · answered by Anonymous · 2⤊ 1⤋