Thursday, May 01, 2008

record oil profits as we pay record high prices - what a surprise!

Exxon Mobil 1Q profit up 17 pct, Wall Street expected more

HOUSTON - Exxon Mobil Corp., the world's largest publicly traded oil company, said Thursday that record crude prices helped its first-quarter profit climb 17 percent to $10.9 billion — the second-biggest U.S. quarterly corporate profit ever.


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It is pretty obvious whose side bush is on - the oil companies make record profits while the people suffer...SOP for this admin...