I thought the figure was 40 billion net profit and a little over 27.5 in taxes world wide for 2007!
Forgot to add, that I guess you meant to compare apples to oranges.
"In 2007, Exxon disclosed income taxes of $30 billion on revenue of $390 billion and net income of $40.6 billion, a new record. Including income, sales-based and all other taxes, Exxon paid $105.7 billion in 2007 taxes, or about 44% of its revenue. Averaged out from 2003-07, the company calculated that it paid about $13 billion a year in U.S. taxes."
http://ewastedisposal.blogspot.com/2008/03/big-oil.html
My buddy is cringing at the thought of tanking up his truck and equipment @ $4.50 a gallon for diesel. He pays enough to the government to keep the stuff on the road and "safe" from the eagle eyes of the nitpicking DOT revenooers.
Big Oil gets a chunk of change for its product - I'm not arguing that. The media spotlight never seems to fall on Big Thug Government, though.
Why is that? ;-)