Exxon made $19 billion in profit and got a $150 million tax rebate in 2009

[Bluebear]

I'll say again — "We" (Americans) don't have domestic oil, because "we" don't have a nationalized oil industry. "Our oil" is actually their oil: Exxon's oil, or Shell's, or Chevron's. They own it. "We" just give them permission to extract it from the ground.

From there "our oil" goes onto the world market, where "we" bid against everyone else on the planet for the right to own it again.

We give them the store so they can sell it back to us. And don't let that nice pant-suited lady from the oil advertisements tell you otherwise. Her name is Brooke Alexander, and she's used to playing con artists; she played one on As The World Turns as well.



http://www.americablog.com/2011/05/exxon-made-19-billion-in-profit-and-got.html

[muntrv]

1. Exxon, get off the dole!

[Vinnie From Indy]

2. I listened to the piece of shit CEO's testimony today

They were wailing and moaning about how having to give up even a dime of their "rebates" would send gas prices as high as Mt. Everest and how it was grossly unfair for them to be given less of a break than other industries.

[Vanje]

3. fUCKERZ nt