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Exxon Mobil reported the fattest operating profit in U.S. corporate history Thursday.

The world's largest publicly traded oil company turned a profit of $11.7 billion for the second quarter. Its earnings were UP 14% from a year
ago.

Exxon Mobil cannot absorb all of the money it is making now. Exxon Mobil spent 46% more money buying its stock back in the first half of this year ($18.2 billion) than it did on exploration and capital expenditures ($12.5 billion).

This makes me SICK. SIIIIICK and furious! It should make you sick and furious too.

Who's Your Daddy, America?

Record oil prices netted Exxon Mobil a $10.89 BILLION profit in the first three months of 2008, sharply higher than a year earlier. (Source: CNN) The profit was the second-highest U.S. corporate profit on record, falling just short of the record $11.66 billion Exxon Mobil earned in the prior quarter (Q4 2007). That's over $21 BILLION PROFIT in 6 months.

profit |ˈpräfit| noun
a financial gain, esp. the difference between the amount earned and the amount spent in buying, operating, or producing something

According to the Associated Press, Exxon Mobil gave chairman and CEO Rex Tillerson an 18% raise to $21.7 million this year.

The average price of gas the week Bill Clinton took office in 1993 was $1.06, and it was $1.50 when he left in 2001. The average price of a gallon of gas the week Bush took office in 2001 was $1.50, and today we're all paying $4.13 a gallon.

I was unable to locate credible information on how much stock in oil companies is owned by Bush 1 & Bar, Jeb, Mr. & Mrs. Dick Cheney, and Bush 2 & Laura.