>>>18.4 BILLION DOLLARS!!!!................on Exxon Mobil ALONE!.......Who's gouging who?.........>>>
Excuse me, but 18 billion dollars on 84 billion dollars is less than the tax percentage on a person making $150k a year. Hooray for tax cuts for big oil.
Yes, but the 18.4 BILLION dollars is a tax is on US! The 150K salary is taxed as income. He is still paying taxes everytime he fills up his Beemer! Add that to his SS Tax, his Medicare tax, his excise taxes on tires etc. and if he lives in an income taxing state, it's even worse! he's busting his arse to feed the tax GREED of DC POLS!..............and yes, I do mean GREED!..........The only difference between a looter politician and a looter in a disaster is the looter in the disaster is breaking the law........
sandbar, you missed a decimal point ... that was $18 billion to the government, $8.4 billion to Exxon/Mobile, not $84 billion ...
Again, who's doing the gouging, a company that made a 9.4% profit margin or the government, which raked in 2.14 times the amount that Exxon did?
Which do you think contributed more to the price at the pump?