Well, please provide facts, not conjecture and hearsay. Do you have annual or quarterly financial reports from any of these oil companies? Do you own stock in an oil company. If you do, you should be ecstatic.
BTW, profits cause more investors to invest in an enterprize who will invest capital to grow the enterprise and create a return on investment. Is that a bad idea?
Understanding how to read a balance sheet and a p&l is not a bad idea. Our children learned this when they took Accounting 101. Now they are both MBAs with strengths in Economics and Marketing.
Read Wall Street Journal once in a while, you will find a bunch of info's!