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The other side of those oil prices
Posted by Rod in Interesting at 9:07 am on Friday, 2 February 2007

Exxon Mobile Posts Record Annual Profit

Oil giant Exxon Mobil Corp. on Thursday posted the largest annual profit by a U.S. company — $39.5 billion — even as earnings for the last quarter of 2006 declined 4 percent.

I feel violated - almost as much as parking in the Events Center carpark. Paid for $14 early bird and then had to go out. Parked again for 3 hours @ $32. So $46 in a day.

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Comments(4)

    Comment by Alex at 10:20 am on 2 February 2007

    You think thats bad? You need to read some Noam Chomsky or John Pilger.

    Or if you are looking for something funny and scary at the same time watch Robert Newmans show “The history of Oil”: http://video.google.com/videosearch?q=robert+newman

    this world is a scary place once you get under the skin.




    Comment by Dougal at 2:07 pm on 2 February 2007

    … and this is where ExxonMobil spends their money - denying climate change:

    http://environment.guardian.co.uk/climatechange/story/0,,2004397,00.html




    Comment by Matt at 4:09 pm on 2 February 2007

    likewise, that’s a staggering 4.5 Million US dolleros per hour in profit

    @*$$## !

    I’m going to start sailing a Blokart to work in protest




    Comment by Andrew at 6:11 pm on 9 February 2007

    Event centre parking - did you stop to consider that an international oil company is housed right above your car park? Perhaps Wilson Parking has learnt a trick or two…

    Try leaving your car in your early bird park overnight, then having to repark it again the next morning…. $14 already paid, another $35 to get your car out, then another $35 to repark…. perhaps I shoulda just left it in there all day!