[Cringing Negativism Network]

What’s seriously wrong, is every time you buy gas — you’re paying quite a bit of that money — directly to terrorists.

That’s the problem.

Not profits.

So how about the oil companies help us change that?...

[lesser_satan]

What nobody ever mentions is that when supply remains static but demand increases, the prices must go up or there will be shortages. If the prices go up, of course the oil companies will make more profits. So what would the populist know-nothings have them do, raise prices and throw the money away?

[fatez]

Sometimes I think only the Investors Business Daily gets it. How screwed up our country really is when profit is “bad”. But here is what really pi$$es me off, these same Dems have trust funds heavily invested in these same “obscene” oil companies. I just hate hypocrisy and that is why I just hate the Democratic party...

[Eagles6]

Excellent

[Crawdad]

With every rise in the price of gasoline, Washington finds what we will pay to get around in our cars.
Whatever “alternative fuel” is created to replace gasoline, if cheaper, will be taxed according to the price of gasoline prior to that replacement.

[Klondike]

But have the profit margins increased? I hear that the margins have not been increasing just the gross revenues. New refinery capacity may be lagging due to very low profit in making gasoline and not just to the Enviros. Anyone have some good numbers?

[Texas Eagle]

"There is something seriously wrong with our economy when Exxon's record $11 billion in quarterly profits are seen as a disappointment by Wall Street," Clinton said Thursday

This from a woman who made over 120 million dollars in the last seven years.

[Texas Eagle]

At least what ExxonMobil produces gets me from Point A to Point B.

All I get from what Her Royal Heinous produces is acid reflux.

[tacticalogic]

I wonder what the profit margin was on her little cattle futures trading venture.

[purpleraine]

Hurricane? Record profits!

Dictator farts? Record profits!

Price per barrel goes down? Record profits?

Price goes up? Record profits!

Before China develops? Record profits!

China Developing? Record profits?

Shortage? Record profits!

War? Record profits!

Refinery fire or repairs? Record profits!

In the springtime, in between time? Record profits!

Price controlled by government? Of course not! But price by late October? Lower! But first have to increase, so it can be lowered!

Either way, record profits!

[Humble Servant]

Everyone who owns stock in the oil companies, directly or through an investment fund, is making a profit on oil. That means my IRA, your retirement plan in all likelihood, and your Aunt Fannie’s investment portfolio that you’re hoping will one day be all yours. It doesn’t look as sinister when you look at it that way.

[Intolerant in NJ]

Profits: Exxon Mobil's first-quarter earnings of $10.9 billion, up 17% from a year earlier...while the price of oil, the product they sell, is up well over 20% since last year - as a percentage of costs, their profits have actually fallen.....'rats hate big oil because they believe it provides funding for the Republicans - but it's time someone took a good look at who helps fund 'rats and might want to see big oil crippled, like maybe George Soros who's been working on a big pipeline deal to pump Russian oil down through the general region of Iran and Iraq, if I remember correctly.......

[pyrless]

Libs aren’t interested in facts, only feelings. We err here in arguments that are fact based. Better to use their own tactics. Instead argue to them that, if they want to impose windfall profit taxes, it’s only “fair” to grant a similar rebate if/when a company incurs a loss. Fairness demands balance. Then watch their argument crumble.

[PogySailor]

bttt