Exxon Mobil reports $11,000,000,000.00 in quarterly profits

How many of those zero's were made selling oil to foreign countries? Are they getting American tax breaks? International business is one thing, but our tax dollars is another.

We are a great country. They are lucky to be doing business in America. If not, why not? Has our country been ruined so badly that we have to bribe companies to be here? It's time Americans go back to thinking about American Industry. Americans should get some benefit from the massive debt we now hold. Companies have made record profits. We have record debt. We didn’t even earn tax dollars from many of the corporations that have earned record profit. which has come at our expense.

Stand up! Start thinking about products that can be made in America and entice investing in America, not paying companies with our tax dollars for investing abroad. Our tax breaks should go to companies that are willing to providing us jobs, hope and futures. Not corporations who have no concerns about Americas hopes and dreams. We are only $$$$$'s in their eyes. We can change how we spend our $'s. 'The many' should not be able to hurt 'the few' with reckless abandon. We need accountability and action! Vote for the candidates who offer plans for accountability and action. Real answers to real questions. No spinning by either candidate!

Well no wonder they need subsidies and loopholes, can you imagine the taxes on $11,000,000,000.00 / quarterly?

Tax their fat asses and roll back gas prices, fund the withdrawal from Iraq, subsidize the VA and buy back the country from China.

This is exactly what i have been saying ever since our gas prices started going up. The oil companies are raping us at the pumps, regardless of the price of crude. Gas could still be at 2.00 a gallon but filthy greedy fat bastards are lining their pockets on our hard earned green. thats why i walk and ride my bike as much as possible because i hate putting gas in my car knowing where the money is going (and no i don't give a damn about emissions)

i'm about ready to go kidnap and torture the little bastards into lowering gas prices (disclaimer: not literally, for lawsuit purposes)

Alternative Fuels for the People!

I heard Bush might drop Gasoline and Oil taxes temporarily to lower the price of gas over the summer and help consumers...Gee, thanks. That's the least he could do.

It goes to show why the oil companies like putting the screws to the public, PROFIT, THAT IS WHY!
The poor people are getting poorer and it is going to get worst..

P.S. I'm riding my bike today, are you?

Where does this money go? Asshole's pockets. Not fair. They are so used to dealing with these numbers, they could not settle for less.

I heard that if we ALL didnt buy gas for one day of the week the price would drop close to a $1.50.

I'm driving sooooo much lessss - so as not to support them - well, that and global warming.

If they report $11B for one quarter, do you realize how much they have written off??

You see, if they've claimed $11B, the real number is much, much, much, much, much, much bigger, grander, mucho more!

In addition, after all the bribes are paid off in Washington, and they still earned tooooo much to hide all of it, and had to claim, poor them, $11 Billion dollars.

I drive as little as possible. I don't use plastic bags except when absolutely necessary, I don't support corporate coffee's (Starbuck is the only one near me) wasteful ways, I eat organic as much as possible.

Vote with your dollars - you have much more power than you think! Use it. DO something!

You see, if they've claimed $11B, the real number is much, much, much, much, much, much bigger, grander, mucho more! -- GOOD POINT!

Purchase wisely with your dollars. Sponsors of mainstream media are the problem. They are paying for news we get. They would choose profit over spin, if we forced them too. They control what we watch and hear from mainstream media. It's as though they all get the same memo of talking points. Wouldn't that be considered a 'monopoly'?

Money should talk, spin should walk. If we had trustworthy media, we would not be in the predicament we are in today.

Way to go America! It so great to live in a country with a bunch of cowards and lemmings. I love it how the ignorant Right -wingers keep pissing away their freedoms and their rights. It validates all my beliefs and means I can keep telling them, "I told you so," year after year.

what the deuce are you talking about...

Why does anyone buy gas from Exxon. Consumers need to buy gas from companies that only sell american oil like Sunoco.

So true, CP, and Eldamon, I agree... but also the Saudi's own quite a large chunk of us!

Poor bastards, how will they ever survive?

Dude, can i borrow a billion? I'll hit back when I get paid promise.

I'm switching to an SOV vehicle this year. My Mercedes is gonna rock!

Its things like this that make me curious why I am still paying so much at the pump...

This is pretty evident that the BAD GUYS are not only those countries in the middle east that seems to take pleasure in gouging the small consumer --but our own country seems to be jumping on the band wagon to screw us even more! Its time that WE control the oil not the other way around.

Exxon: Redefining Highway Robbery... One Gallon At A Time.

^^Thought it might be time to change that slogan they currently have for something a little more appropriate.

lifestudentno83

You're right, it is highway robbery. Good comment!

Exxon: Redefining Highway Robbery... One Gallon At A Time.

skate!

absolutely sickening. legal crooks.