Please forgive this rare rant but I can't let this pass...

[Career Prole]

The shit's been building and building and every once in a while you're going to hit critical mass... and this frigging does it for me.

NEW YORK (Reuters) - Exxon Mobil Corp. on Thursday posted a quarterly profit of $9.9 billion, its biggest ever and one of the largest in U.S. corporate history, as it raked in a bonanza from soaring oil and gas prices.

Exxon's oil and gas production fell 4.7 percent in the third quarter from a year earlier as outages caused by Katrina and Rita, maintenance activities, and maturing fields more than offset higher production from new fields in West Africa.

Exxon said it did not see the point of a windfall profits tax.

"Frankly, if you're trying to encourage supply growth, it seems odd to put in place disincentives," Henry Hubble, vice president of investor relations for Exxon, said on a conference call with analysts.

Looky here, motherfucker...if your profit's up 75% over the third quarter of last year yet your fucking production was down 4.7% for the same period that is a WINDFALL, you assholes!
You over-stuffed sons o' bitches didn't do FUCK-ALL for that extra money except change the fucking numbers on the signs at the pumps...it wasn't earned.

You want to know what a food-for-oil scandal is? It's families skipping meals so they can afford to stay warm and drive themselves to their shit-paying work every day.

I'm going to LAUGH MY ASS OFF when you fucking pigs have to burn your money-piles to stay warm once the oil's gone because you lack the fucking skills necessary to cut a cord of wood and no one will fucking 'do' for you anymore because your money is no longer worth the paper it's printed on.

TAKE your congress, TAKE your president (and veep if you can fucking find him), and GET THE FUCK OUTTA MY JOINT!

Oh, and dig this shit...

While Exxon's quarterly profit was up 75 percent from a year earlier, and revenue rose 32 percent to more than $100 billion, the results fell short of Wall Street forecasts due to production outages caused by the hurricanes and sharply lower profit at the company's chemicals division.

"They were a bit disappointing, but this a temporary phenomenon," said Paul Kuklinski, an analyst with Boston Energy Research/Soleil Securities.

Just goes to fucking show there ain't no sating some goddamned pigs.

[stop the bleeding]

1. I feel better....

:argh:

[LSparkle]

12. Me, too ... that was a fucking symphony of catharsis

DAMN THEM ALL -- I HATE THESE PEOPLE!!!

[ixion]

2. I say they have to give some back, if they were gouging, which

they were.

A tax would only go into the hands of the Bushies.

How about giving me a few thousand back for over charging me for the last 4 years. :grr:

[OldLeftieLawyer]

3. Consider this:

Saudi Arabia is the biggest funder of the "insurgency" in Iraq. They're the ones who jerked up the price of crude oil, thereby allowing us - their most dependable customers - to pay for the privilege of having our own soldiers killed by people defending their own country.

How's that for beautiful?

And the Bush family is ever so tight with the Saudis.............

[Binka]

78. Does He Have A Saudi Male Lover Too? Look At This PIG!

[smirkymonkey]

90. It's interesting how they all actually LOOK like pigs.

Big, fat, ugly pigs at the trough. Disgusting.

[Vektor]

4. Gorgeous rant! Kicked and nominated.

Good stuff. I couldn't have said it any better myself.

[LynzM]

5. Sing it brother!

No forgiving necessary. This is a good, deserved rant!

[proud patriot]

6. excellent rant

:patriot:

[LoKnLoD]

7. You go!!!

Right on!!! :applause:

Nothing beats a good rant. :rant:

[mestup]

8. Hey! Corporations are people, too!

:sarcasm:

[izzie]

19. You made me so mad I ate my shower curtain.

:hug:

[Career Prole]

21. And you made me laugh again!

:rofl:

Thank you!
:hug:

[mestup]

53. ROFL!

[schrodingers_cat]

61. Your shower curtain is probably a petroleum-based product (n/t)

[mike_c]

9. recommended....

Excellent rant. Fucking aye.

[Generator]

10. Get John Stossel on this stat!

He will really explain why rich people making absurd amounts of money off of you is good!

[amitten]

16. John Stossel=my arch nemesis.

I truly, truly cannot stand that man and his disgustingly twisted logic. His outdated 'stache is bigger than his brain.

[magnolia]

11. You took the words right out of my mouth!

Good rant.

[Stephanie]

13. unbelievable

How the hell do they justify that?

[Lex]

14. Tell it, bro . . .

I like this part "Looky here, motherfucker..."

[MelissaB]

15. Bravo, Career Prole! Damn pigs!

:applause:

[MsAnthropy]

17. Bravo!

[stevedeshazer]

18. Jesus H. Christ!

K & R

[butterfly77]

20. Rant on Rant on...

Tell it like it TIS we need more of this

[HereSince1628]

22. Don't you know the purpose of capitalism is to concentrate wealth?

This is just free f@#$ing enterprise at its best.

The spin of course is that poor people can't do any sort of development of production within the community, you need a big ass pool of money to do good things. The rich have that big ass pile of money.

The unstated flip side is that no where does it say that money must always spent on the development of production within the community from which the wealth was concentrated.

[two gun sid]

23. WoW! That is the best post I've read in a while....

Thank-you.

[cal04]

24. Did you see this comment. Outrageous

Profit's up 75%, but results deemed 'mildly disappointing'
http://www.marketwatch.com/news/story.asp?guid=%7B0ABD102F%2D3C50%2D48B8%2D931F%2D0899FC7631FF%7D&siteid=mktw&dist=
:mad:

[zippy890]

25. all RIGHT thats a great rant

They are goddamn pigs at the trough, getting fat at the expense of the rest of us.

If this is free enterprise I'll take socialism. Public ownership of the oil companies.

At a minimum congress should pass a Windfall Profits Tax - now!

[Gronk Groks]

27. With shrub, the oilman's best friend running the country into the...

ground you can be assured that a windfall profit tax won't even be considered.

I swear, if Fitzpatrick can't take these criminals out a very bloody revolution is just around the corner.

[Kurovski]

26. MISSION ACCOMPLISHED.

BushCo mission accomplished.

[femrap]

28. I saw this Earnings Report somewhere else....

and it included a picture of the CEO on ExxonMobil.....! He looked EXACTLY like an overfed HOG! This huge double chin! I'm serious....

Maybe someone with better google skills than me could find it and post....I could truly this man with his head at a trough slamming hundred $ bills down his throat. He practically looked like sci-fi monster...

[Career Prole]

34. This guy?

Looks pretty hungry. I hope he's taking something for his blood pressure...he looks like he's fixin' to blow.
:hide:

[femrap]

43. Yes.....EEK!

Isn't that disgusting? I mean he gives pigs a bad name! Some pigs are actually rather cute.

How would you like to wake up and have to look at that? Now I will have nightmares!

[eppur_se_muova]

64. Is that M'sieur Creosote?

...from Monty Python's "Meaning of Life"? He's shaved his soupstrainer.

[Caretha]

95. Yep

he looks like he's fixin' to blow.

See the crease in his ear? Sure sign of heart problems.

[Mr_Spock]

29. There needs to be serious consequences for such rampant thievery

I need an outlet to get back at these sons-of-bitches. Someone tell me how - I know the boycott would be ineffective as I buy no-name gasoline already. They must pay for this :argh:

[Mr_Jefferson_24]

72. I think you said the...

...magic word: BOYCOTT. I don't see why it couldn't be effective if this thievery is widely publicized and enough people are willing to participate. They were dealt an economic blow by citizens pissed off about the Exxon Valdez years ago.

[Touchdown]

30. Is it time yet to bring up nationalization of oil?

Or do we need 200 years of corruption, graft, trusts, plutocrcies, fake shortages, phony "technology infancy" talk about alternative energy, and general corporate malfeasence, instead of the 100 years of which we just witnessed?

Oh' that's SOCIALISM? Ok,then I'll shut up.:eyes:

[mongo]

45. No - it is most certainly the time

but instead of nationalization - lets talk re-regulation. I think the time will be right after America pays it's winter heating bills under a de-regulated natural gas industry.

Regulate the Gasoline industry

Re-regulate the electric industry

Re-regulate the natural gas industry

Regualte the insurance industry

Regulate Health care - that would go at least 50% of the way to providing affordable health care to all Americans.

Huge electric and gas monopolies flourished under regulation for 70 years. There is no shame in consumer protection.

[Just Me]

31. Exploitation, pure and simple. Fabulous rant!!!

These fuckers don't operate in a "free market",...they control the market. Why their asses aren't pinned to the goshdamn wall is beyond me!!! They are exploiting the vulnerability of the American people,...and encouraged to do so by this regime.

It's so fucking disgusting!!! EVIL ASSWIPES!!!

[Career Prole]

32. Thanks, guys! Guess I tapped a well of resentment there...

Oops! :)

[B Calm]

94. Yes you did! This should even make right wingers ponder why

they vote for anybody in the Grand Oil Party! Notice I did say SHOULD!

[Sydnie]

33. Best. Rant. Today!

Rant On! You are right on target.

[insane_cratic_gal]

35. Amen... eom.

[Viking12]

36. Testify Brother!!

[okieinpain]

37. I was thinking the same thing. bravo on your most excellent rant.

[WLKjr]

38. They think we "wee little people" do not understand economics

They are arrogant.

The sun doesn't shine on one dogs ass all of the time.....

[Nordmadr]

39. I love how oil fields that have diminishing production are referred to

as "maturing fields". Shouldn't they be called "dying fields"?

Out of all the worlds in the Universe, I had to be born on this one...

Olaf

[YOY]

40. Just pray that whatever will be petroleum's replacement will not

be in their hands as well.

They've gotten enough and given nothing.

[SammyWinstonJack]

82. Oh. I'm sure they're already scamming on that. Working on it even

as we discuss their obscene oil profits. GREEDY PIGS!

[StellaBlue]

41. AFUCKINGMEN

[myrna minx]

42. Damn-I need a cigarette after that!

Thank you for your wonderful rant.

[GreenPartyVoter]

44. A-frickin-men! *high five*

[alstephenson]

46. I worked in the oil industry for 5 years......

They are greedy, heartless MFs. Let's just say our values "were not in alignment".....I work for a non-profit now and I can actually sleep at night! Thanks for the rant!

[Career Prole]

50. Welcome to DU, Al!

Hope the cussing didn't offend if you still have friends in the "bidness".

I kinda blew my stack when I read that article. I know too many people who are 'up against it'. :eyes:

[Cults4Bush]

47. I am soooo down with that! Fuck 'em! n/t

[Nikki Stone1]

48. RANT ON!! I heard about this today and support your rant 100%

:)

[Jamastiene]

49. I couldn't agree more. It's just pure greed. n/t

[converted_democrat]

51. That is without a doubt, the best rant I've ever read!!! K&R..n/t

[Miss Chybil]

52. Is it time for the pitch forks, yet?

We need to get these fuckers off the dole.

[SalmonChantedEvening]

54. No forgiveness needed

That was my cathartic moment for the night.

Thank you :pals:

[Cooley Hurd]

55. A REAL President, one that actually had the AMERICAN PEOPLE'S...

...best interests at heart, would PUT HIS FOOT DOWN!

But, then again, this is the guy we're saddled with:
x(

[KayLaw]

56. Wow! That's one heck of a rant.

I wish they'd put YOU on CNN!

:bounce:

[Career Prole]

57. Their boy Andy Sewer suggested we all buy Oil Stock yesterday.

"I'd like, um...

"A dollar seventy five on pump three, no, not the Escalade, the primer-colored '66 Dart behind it...

"This Slushie...

"A pack o' Juicy-Fruit...

"And *sorting change and pocket lint* 5,000 shares of Exxon.

No...no bag. Thanks!"

[Thirtieschild]

58. ONlY 75% increase in profits?

My 97-year-old mother gets a tiny check from an oil inheritance. For years she'd get maybe $100 every three months. Now she's getting something like $300 a month. I don't understand the intricacies of even simple arithmetic, but jumping from $30 to $300 a month is in the stratosphere. One thousand percent? Surely not.

I'd figured that the "inheritance" would come to me divided three times, eventually go to my children divided four more times, and finally go to their chidlren divided another two times. I'd guessed that our grandchildren might get all of fifty cents a month from it. However, prices keep jumping at this rate, our grandchildren might be oil heirs and heiresses after all.

[happydreams]

59. Great rant, no rambling, very concise with damning facts. nominated

[druidity33]

60. not a solution but...

I would urge everyone here to buy gas from Citgo... did you know that Venezuelans are paying roughly 33 cents per gallon and that their state funded oil company (Citgo) pays for their National Health Care and education initiatives? Also Venezuela has begun a home heating assistance program in America for poor people (with nearly the same amount of assistance as the US federally funded program)... primarily because Chavez believes it is the right thing to do (no incentives from US gov whatsoever, in fact i'm sure they're ticked off about it but because Citgo is technically treated like any other corporation, they can spend their profits however they see fit)...

CHAVEZ ROCKS!!!

[Leopolds Ghost]

62. Supply and Demand -- basic economics

Not just capitalist economics, either.

Finite resource economics. Decrease the supply, increase the demand and profit will increase.

I love it when folks who are nominally environmentalist scream and shout when the price of gas goes up to what it has been in Europe all along. It is simply seeking equilibrium doing that. Gas in US has been kept artificially low and the result is all the enviro problems we have in this country.

Tax the profits if you wish, but your only other options are to collectivize the gas industry (like in Alaska -- sort of) or subsidize (promote burning of more) gasoline in the face of Asian demand.

As someone said on another thread, the only reason the "sheeple" hate Bush is gas prices. People truly don't understand economics and America is complacent and under-informed about these issues.

When production FALLS on a resource that has inelastic demand, profits RISE. It is basic economics.

[Career Prole]

69. Of course. And it's also basic economics which has stalled for decades

meaningful research and development of alternate energy.

So it's pretty damned obvious basic anything, least of all economics, is a sensible solution.

If business continues to ignore social responsibility and show allegiance only to the bottom line to the detriment of society, business is going to find itself regulated to a fare-thee-well or nationalized because there is only so much a society will bear...business pushes that envelope at its own peril.

When it becomes a matter of survival I guarantee you Daddy Warbucks will find his own head stuck on the bedpost, not the cabana boy's.

[ignatius 2]

63. Conoco's earnings were released yesterday and profits were up 89%.

This is disgusting,literally making money from disaster and terror..just like their sister defense industries.

Who says death,destruction and grief doesn't pay?

10% minimum of those profits should go into a hurricane relief fund for the rebuilding of hurricane ravaged infra-structure and taken off the backs of the American people. The same American people who were forced to contribute to those obscene profits to begin with. Talk about your double taxation..

[aztc]

65. $911 GAS

OH - HERE'S AN IDEA!

http://www.drive55.org/

[Career Prole]

70. Welcome to DU, aztc!

Good to have you here! :toast:

[Emit]

66. We can thank the Rockefellers for this

Ironically, I was just reading a little history on the Rockefellers and, back in 1906, the US Government charged Standard Oil--the direct ancestor of Exxon-- with violating the Sherman Anti-Trust Act, after Standard was exposed as a monopoly, controlling 95% of all oil produced in the US. In 1911, the US Supreme Court agreed: "Seven men and a corporate machine have conspired against their fellow citizens. For the safety of the Republic we now decree that this dangerous conspiracy must be ended by November 15th."

Of course, the Rockefellers, then forced to dissolve, ironically maneuvered themselves into a position that only increased their wealth. Rockefeller became America's first billionaire shortly after this.

We continue to see the effects of this. It is truly amazing to see the expansive wealth and political involvement this family has in our country and government:

...In case you were not able to keep a running total of the firms enmeshed in the various strands of the Rockefeller web, let us summarize the known results: 37 of the nation's top l00 industrials, 9 of the top 20 transportation firms, the nation's number one utility, 3 of the 4 largest insurance companies, plus scores of smaller companies engaged in manufacturing, distribution, retail sales, loans, or investments, are controlled by the Rockefellers.

http://www.thetruthseeker.co.uk/article.asp?ID=2803

[Mythsaje]

67. You bring the pitchforks,

I'll bring the torches!

[Skinner]

68. Nice rant.

:thumbsup:

[Pacifist Patriot]

71. I think I'm going to retch.

[Pooka Fey]

73. Good rant. n/t

[opihimoimoi]

74. 9.7 Billion$ ?..."Were a bit disappointing???? In 3 Months? These guys are

outta control.....

[moondust]

75. Produce less and make more. Great idea!

Let's all join in this brave new capitalist model!

[NewJeffCT]

76. Last year, ExxonMobil set an all-time record for profits

In 2004, ExxonMobil's net profit for the year was $25.3 Billion. That shattered the old all-time record of somewhere around $17 billion.

This year, ExxonMobil is on track to net well over $30 billion, possibly even over $35 billion.

[B Calm]

77. When you RANT....you RANT!! I love this post!!

[w8liftinglady]

79. add to that,they only paid 15% tax...

...awesome rant-you hit the nail on the head...

[Kire]

80. I love DU.

Looky here, motherfucker!

[Patiod]

81. Sorry prole - but you're wrong

You over-stuffed sons o' bitches didn't do FUCK-ALL for that extra money except change the fucking numbers on the signs at the pumps...it wasn't earned.

They worked DAMNED hard for those profits -- can you imagine what it cost them to get their boys Bush and Cheney to look as if they were elected, and what it cost to line the pockets of the likes of Delay and Hastert, so that all their happy little energy bills would get passed whether they were supported by a majority or not.

"didn't do FUCK-ALL" - I think not. Lobbyists are not free, you know. Jeez, Prole.

[Career Prole]

83. I don't know what the hell I was thinking of...

I was outta control, I tell ya! :eyes:

[aztc]

84. HEY! HERE IS AN IDEA TO SAVE GAS!!

http://www.drive55.org/pn/index.php

[centristo]

85. do you remember how during the 2004 elections

The Bush-bots kept whining about John Kerry's $.50 gas tax per gallon? Keep in mind that was a proposal from years prior and he certainly wasn't proposing that once elected. Well guess what you stupid fucks, we got it way way worse with Bush. Hey, is that war in Iraq saving you any money at the pumps? Fuck you.

It just makes me sick we have to pay for the mistake of others (the people who voted for Bush).

[Career Prole]

88. You bet. I also remember this...

Q: The Energy Secretary said he would not tap US strategic petroleum reserves in order to drive down prices saying those reserves are for emergencies. But given the shortages that exist, do you consider this an appropriate time to tap those reserves?

A: No, I don’t. I agree with the energy secretary that the strategic petroleum reserve is meant for a national wartime emergency. What I think the president ought to do is get on the phone with the OPEC cartel and say we expect you to open your spigots. One reason why the price is so high is because the price of crude oil has been driven up. OPEC has gotten its supply act together and it’s driving the price, like it did in the past. And the president must jawbone OPEC members to lower the price. And if in fact there is collusion amongst big oil, he ought to intercede there as well.

Source: GOP Debate in Manchester NH Jan 26, 2000

http://www.issues2000.org/Celeb/More_George_W__Bush_Energy_+_Oil.htm

If his lips are movin' he's lyin'...

[flying_wahini]

86. amen to that, sister

I saw that Conoco-Phillips was over the top, too with profits.
They are lickin their chops waiting for the cold weather to hit
the NE, so they can rake in even more this winter. someone told me
that people in Mich.(i think) got letters saying their heating bills will be
much higher this winter,(up To 70%) and to prepare..... how are they supposed to do that? anyone out there get a letter?
as far as the boycott issue goes, I buy from Chevron because
it is a company owned by the gov't of Venezuela - ala Hugo Chavez.
That may be mistaken logic on my part, don't know, but at least
I am buying from a company that is trying to take care of it's
people.... maybe i'm wrong, unsure....

[RememberWellstone]

87. I agree.

it is absolutely criminal what these oil companies are doing to America. Thank the Idiot Moron in Chief for this.

[hogwyld]

89. Nationalize Now

That is an awesome rant! It is time to nationalize oil production in this country now. Big oil has proven over and over that they do not have this nation's intrests at heart. Oh wait, they don't have a frickin' heart! Bust up the oil trusts, and put the people in charge.

[GOPBasher]

91. That made me feel better!

Thanks! :thumbsup:

[Career Prole]

92. Great!

You're welcome! :toast:

[B Calm]

93. I heard two truckers ranting about this today!

[Career Prole]

96. Those guys (at least the indies) are getting hammered.

They oughta be mad!