E$$onMobil post biggest quarterly profit ever, 14.8 billion

[Bountang]

DISCUSS................

[Joe M]

Article....

[OrangeCrush 86]

I don't get it, why is this is an issue?

[00Formula]

God those poor bastards can't get a break

[Slow35th]

in on 1

[Joe M]

I don't get it, why is this is an issue?

because were in a recession and losing tons of money!!!!! :turborun:

[SDK]

I hear Chinease coal mining is the way to invest

[LS1Z28]

because were in a recession and losing tons of money!!!!! :turborun:

OMFG!!! Would you feel better if the oil company was asking for a bailout too?

[Joe M]

OMFG!!! Would you feel better if the oil company was asking for a bailout too?

Of course! :turborun::turborun::turborun::turborun:

[Stormwalker]

Here's the article, for those curious:

http://biz.yahoo.com/ap/081030/earns_exxon_mobil.html

[SpaceMan]

:tear:

[mnstang]

i love the retards that refer to oil companies as "big oil"

omg we are in a recession and a company just had record profit! they are clearly teh devil!!!1

in other news, gas prices are heading below $2 a gallon. damn big oil! the government should really step in and do something, i don't know what, but something!!!!!!!

[00Formula]

i love the retards that refer to oil companies as "big oil"

omg we are in a recession and a company just had record profit! they are clearly teh devil!!!1

in other news, gas prices are heading below $2 a gallon. damn big oil! the government should really step in and do something, i don't know what, but something!!!!!!!

That's this quarter, now wait for these oil companies to start bitching about how they aren't making any money with gas prices this low.

[SpaceMan]

i love the retards that refer to oil companies as "big oil"

omg we are in a recession and a company just had record profit! they are clearly teh devil!!!1

in other news, gas prices are heading below $2 a gallon. damn big oil! the government should really step in and do something, i don't know what, but something!!!!!!!

Take control of the oil by buying (bailing out) the oil companies, which will "lower" the cost of gasoline to roughly $6.00 a gallon.

[SpaceMan]

It is kind of funny that oil companies are perceived as bad because we built our infrastructure and society around oil. Because we need it and need a lot of it and it pollutes our environment and kills trees polar bears and duckbilled platypii, it makes oil companies bad