Comments on: Is Exxon Mobil The Best Run Company On The Planet?

By: Candace Evans

Candace Evans — Mon, 02 Feb 2009 15:54:04 +0000

Trey Garrison, I love you. Let’s draw these people a diagram: I have Exxon stock. I also have (heart-attack) AIG and Fannie Mae. Like a dunce I bought Citi when it was a bargain at $10 — now it’s about, what, $3? So when you look at my portfolio, some of it is not just in the toilet, it’s in the Trinity. Then you look at Exxon holding strong and you think, gosh, I will not kill myself today.

By: Don in Austin

Don in Austin — Mon, 02 Feb 2009 14:59:21 +0000

@Studius
Right dictator, right oil company, wrong country. But Argentina IS easier to spell.

By: ARCO ex

ARCO ex — Mon, 02 Feb 2009 02:25:30 +0000

To put the Exxon/Mobil profit in perspective, would someone please tell me how many oil companies there were 10 years ago?

By: I second that emotion

I second that emotion — Sun, 01 Feb 2009 23:27:00 +0000

bbb:

Have you checked the price of petrol in Great Britain lately? Gas in the U.S. is cheaper than almost everywhere but Saudi Arabia (and I don’t suppose you would like to live there, would you?).

I don’t feel like I’m “forced to pay” at all. In fact, I really think I’m getting quite a deal, considering that Exxon paid to explore for oil, paid the enormous capital costs of extracting it out of the ground (or from the sea bed more than a mile under water), paid for the factories to refine it, paid the pipeline cost of pumping it to distribution points, and provided the franchise rights for gas station owners to allow me to pump my gas in a generally clean, safe, and well-lighted place.

Quite a deal, considering that I don’t know how else I would get it.

By: Trey Garrison

Trey Garrison — Sun, 01 Feb 2009 18:16:15 +0000

“Making a lot of money just means you took a lot of money from a lot of other people.”

If anyone wonders what the hell is wrong with America, that’s it in one sentence.

By: Geronimo

Geronimo — Sun, 01 Feb 2009 17:13:19 +0000

Does this mean they may finally pay the full amount awarded after the Valdez disaster? No thought not.

By: Christopher

Christopher — Sun, 01 Feb 2009 15:32:58 +0000

@ matt/gravypan, I guess my sarcasm was too subtle

By: Studius Maximus

Studius Maximus — Sun, 01 Feb 2009 06:06:57 +0000

Hey, I don’t like the gluttons of gas but I’d rather spend it with Exxon rather than that DickTater Chavez in Argentina “Citgo”.
Every person that is on earth is under some kind of greedy government and employer. Why should we be any different? Extract as much as you can, as fast as you can, from as many people as you can.

By: bbb

bbb — Sun, 01 Feb 2009 05:48:22 +0000

Making a lot of money just means you took a lot of money from a lot of other people. I don’t think it’s much of a stretch to say the American peons are forced to pay the prices at the pumps.

By: Gravypan

Gravypan — Sun, 01 Feb 2009 03:48:35 +0000

“Or ask them to fund part of it…it is tax season, you know”

Yes, let’s punish them for being one of the few successful companies that has weathered the economic storm and will continue to do so.

Some brilliant logic you’ve got working there, Christopher. Punish the successful and bail out the idiots.