I got a bigger number 404 Billion. That is what they spent to make that 36 billion. I doubt you could understand the significance of it if 36 billion can boggle your puny mind.

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01 Ford Excursion Powerstroke
99 E300 Turbodiesel
91 Vette with 383 motor
05 Polaris Sportsman 800 EFI
06 Polaris Sportsman 500 EFI
03 SeaDoo GTX SC Red
03 SeaDoo GTX SC Yellow
04 Tailgator 21 ft Toy Hauler
11 Harley Davidson 883 SuperLow

Even better than the pizza business if you can believe it. Pizza rolling around inside your mouth still taste better though.
I remember the introduction of pizza in my Toronto neighbourhood a couple of years back. 1.40 for a single choice 9 inch and no or very few customers. That outlet actually did not survive.
Nothing wrong with their product either in my opinion. Especially compared to those cardboard units sold at chain stores in the freezer section now. I can barely stand to eat a slice of them. Probably taste like 36 billion perhaps. Or worse.

It wasn't all that long ago that diesel was a fair bit less than regular unleaded. I've been driving diesels for 25 years. If anything there are more of them on the road today than there were 5-10 years ago when the prices started rising past gasoline.

Are you serious?! Wow!

Damn! Why didn't I ever buy any Exxon stock? You really can't fight the big corporations. A better strategy is to just invest in them and try to let the dividends offset the cost of living increases.

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OBK #55

1998 Lincoln Continental - Sold
Max 1984 300TD 285,000 miles - Sold
The Dee8gonator 1987 560SEC 196,000 miles - Sold
Orgasmatron - 2006 CLS500 90,000 miles
2002 C320 Wagon 122,000 miles
2016 AMG GTS 12,000 miles

And your point is?

Yes, the company spent money. All companies do.
I own TWO businesses, BTW, I'm not unaware of how business
works.
But oil and gas are one of the things that can make or break
the economy.
If fuel prices go up, it costs more to ship things across the country.
When it costs more, the end consumer pays the bill.
If the end consumer cannot afford to pay more for fuel, food,
clothing, etc then they cannot BUY the things needed to go to
work, feed their families and put clothes on their backs.
If the Exxon-Mobils of the country could make a few bucks less
in PROFIT (that what's left AFTER all the bills are paid, BTW)
then maybe those who are in the Have-nots column could afford
fuel, food, medicine, clothing and an occassional night out with
the family.
Notice that I added medicine and the occassional night out.
Medicine is a need that many have to go without because other
things get too expensive (food trucked by diesel trucks across the country).
The occassional night out is needed for the economy to flurish.

So, I get it.
I don't get when anyone other than those rich with oil stocks aren't outraged when oil companies announce $36B in profits when our economy is in the sinker.

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78 300SD, 265K (mine)

Maybe, just maybe, demand is creeping up on supply (oil is getting scarcer and harder to get). Yes I'm talking about peak oil. Yes, I put my flame suit on already.

Or

They're a bunch of bastards that make me constantly broke and take all my pick n pull money

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LOL! http://www.oil-price.net/

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The Chinese are buying lots of oil and other things. That has really strained the supply of commodities around the world.

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OBK #55

1998 Lincoln Continental - Sold
Max 1984 300TD 285,000 miles - Sold
The Dee8gonator 1987 560SEC 196,000 miles - Sold
Orgasmatron - 2006 CLS500 90,000 miles
2002 C320 Wagon 122,000 miles
2016 AMG GTS 12,000 miles

i think we are forgetting a large segment of diesel use in this country, and that is OTR trucks. think how many millions of trucks are on the road and how poor the fuel economy thereof. i'd be willing to bet it's not a supply/demand issue in comparison to other countries.

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Veg Power Two tank conversion

At the last fill up of my E300D, diesel was 108.9 pence per litre.

I'm sorry, but there are a couple of beastly conversions;

So, that's 108.9 pence per 0.264172051242 US gallons

So, that's $2.16293 0.264172051242 US gallons

or, $8.19 per US gallon.

Here's the UK minimum wage structure; (although, if you're skilled, you're some way above this)

• Workers aged 22 and over - £5.52 per hour
• Workers aged 18-21 - £4.60 per hour
• Workers aged 16-17 - £3.40 per hour

So, before tax, a minimum wage earner can almost afford a gallon of diesel per hour worked.

Don't get me going about tax though! Direct tax accounts for about 30% of our money, while indirect taxes, like sales taxes take about the same again. We do have a National Health Service (if hospital acquired infections are your thing!), but apart from building the odd road, they tend to waste the rest of it!

What does each business of your's spend and what is the percentage of profit? IIRC, they brought in 404 of which 36 is profit. What is the big deal?

I don't have oil stocks. However, the oil companies have NO obligation to make less or more profits because your economy is in the sinker or if it is doing well.

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01 Ford Excursion Powerstroke
99 E300 Turbodiesel
91 Vette with 383 motor
05 Polaris Sportsman 800 EFI
06 Polaris Sportsman 500 EFI
03 SeaDoo GTX SC Red
03 SeaDoo GTX SC Yellow
04 Tailgator 21 ft Toy Hauler
11 Harley Davidson 883 SuperLow

I disagree.

Please don't quote me, but I beleive XOM owns ~3% of world oil reserves, CVX less, and the rest of the US based companies so little they hardly matter.

None of them set the price for a barrel of oil.

Your complaints should be directed to OPEC for controling output, BRIC for using too darn much and our Fed Gov for creating roadblocks such that exploration is all but impossible except in deep water and that new refineries can't be built due to EIR's to increase our refining capacity.

Where you you when big oil was floundering in the 70's & 80's when oil was stuck at $10 a barrel. I dont think oil broke $30 until almost 2000. Did you bang your drum for them then lobbying for tax credits or bailouts?

Run $10 for 37 years at 3-3.5% inflation and tell what you think you should be paying a barrel.

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N. Calif. & Boca Chica, Panama

09' E320 Bluetec 77k (USA)
09' Hyundai Santa Fe Diesel 48k (S.A.)

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/18097600/

$3000 dollar cars for sale in India/China will seal this deal.

Criminals exercising their license to steal is the answer you are looking for.

2500 dollar cars will be such a piece of crap two things can happen.

They will (maybe) not be pieces of crap and have widespread use, destroying the world.

They will be crappy and break in the first year of use, taking them off the road.

I believe in the second.

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Diesel it what is left over when they make gas....now take that left over diesel and squeeze a lil bit more gas out of it...oh no look at that now there is more gas to sell and less diesel ...time to jack up the price on diesel and have extra gas...kill two birds with one stone...thats why diesel is more.


some places in cali and other states actaully still sell diesel at a cheaper price then super....why i have no idea but they are out there.

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