Heaven Runs On Oil

NEW YORK "Exxon Mobil and other energy companies have reported record profit for the third quarter on surging prices of oil and gasoline before and after the hurricanes struck the United States.

Exxon Mobil, the world's largest publicly traded oil company, reported on Thursday that profit rose 75 percent from a earlier, to $9.92 billion. Revenue rose 31.9 percent, to $100.7 billion.

Royal Dutch Shell said third-quarter profit rose 68 percent, to $9.03 billion. Revenue rose 6 percent, to $94.7 billion.

Marathon Oil reported third-quarter net income of $770 million, up from $222 million. Revenue jumped 40 percent, to $17.2 billion."


In short, gas prices could be lower. When oil companie's profits are rising, drastically, it's obvious that they are not raising prices out of necessity, but out of greed. The saddest thing is that many of the leaders and "respected" men of this country have connections to these companies, and are seeing more than a pretty penny for playing along. Just when I was starting to trust the word of so-called "experts" opinions about hight prices and our lack of options, I read this. Just fucking great.

To acknowledge the resurgence of the NHL, and a great band who I have been listening to lately named Propagandhi, I leave you with this, an excerpt from one of their songs.

"We're the Oilers and the World Bank is the Flames. And just 2 minutes remain in the 7th game of the best of 7 series. Jesus saves! Gretzky scores! The workers slave, the rich get more. One wrong move and we risk the cup. So play THE MAN, not the puck."

Fuck you Exxon, Fuck you Bush regime, Fuck people who drive Hummers.