“As for correcting my “mistakes”, are you even reading the financial publications surrounding the big oil companies? Are you even aware that nearly every quarter they are posting record profits?”
Roughly 7% profit for oil companies vs. 15% profit for Apple. Who’s making record profits?
What you don’t seem to understand is that oil companies are HUGE. 7% of a huge number is a huge number! You need to normalize the numbers to do any real comparisons.
I don’t need to normalize jack, if they’re making record profits then OBVIOUSLY their margins have suddenly become higher for some reason.
Comparing the oil companies to a computer company is comparing apples to oranges and you know it so stop already with the rediculous comparisons between completely unrelated industries.