[sumocide]

Time to buy?

[Diana in Wisconsin]

Woo-Hoo! I predict a stock split in my future! :)

[xzins]

Some of this does not make sense.

I'm all for market-based profits, but it must be a truly free market. It mustn't be interfered with by labor, management, or government.

Cartels, deals, schemes, or price controls are not a "free market."

[Fierce Allegiance]

My grandaddy was a wise man. Thanks Grandaddy!

[cynicom]

Supply and demand, market at work??? When supply is controlled by a handful of people, demand becomes an orphan.

Would be capitalists here seem not to understand that.

[Sometimes A River]

When the price of ____ goes up ____, then those who sell ____ will reap greater profits.

[justshutupandtakeit]

These obscene profits are the equivalent of an 8.4% return per share. Ghastly horrid greedy. NOT.

[RightWhale]

Exxon will use the profit to invest in more oil and natural gas development, and to upgrade refineries. That's their business, and that is what they do. Do we want to take the profits, call them windfall, and not have them available to develop petroleum resources? Is Hillary series about crippling the industry and giving us real oil problems?

[Clemenza]

Hooray for Exxon Mobile! F-ck Bill O'Reilly (not even my neighbor's dog would want to).

[CSM]

What is the actual ROS involved with these numbers?

[hripka]

"State and local gas tax collections exceed oil industry profits by a large margin, according to a Tax Foundation study released last week. Since 1977, consumers have paid $1.34 trillion in gas taxes - more than twice the profits of all major U.S. oil companies combined during that same period. Last year, state and federal gas taxes took in $58.4 billion. Major U.S. oil company profits last year totaled $42.6 billion."

- New Hampshire Union Leader, 10/30/05

[<1/1,000,000th%]

Excluding a gain of $1.62 billion from restructuring its stake in a Dutch gas transportation business, earnings were $1.32 per share. On that basis, analysts' average forecast was $1.39, according to Reuters Estimates.

They missed the analysts estimate so this is a bad thing. They were expected to make even more money.

[litehaus]

THE Recently wed Mr. Exxon and former Ms.Mobil speak up---

The happy couple are proud to announce that their combined income has reached record heights and is the talk of the town.

Prior to their marriage both were considered only "above average income" folks.

Neighbors have been heard to say -- "This isn't fair" and urged they be forcibly divorced so each can return to their earlier , less remarkable status.