Follow The Money

 

1. Isn’t this the same CEO who made a speech at the World Economic Forum in Saudi Arabia (the same one where Al Whore criticized the treatment of Arab detainees) that energy independence would be impossible? 

   The fact is, I don’t have a problem with companies making lots of money.  What does bother me is when it’s done by enriching rogue Islamic states.  Whatever happened to loyalty towards your country first and foremost?

   Posted by lisar915       07/27/2006  at  11:34 AM  



2. The pic shown here is outgoing ceo Lee Raymond. A hare lipped ex S.Dakota farmboy who made it to the big time on his chem e degree. Having worked for 20 plus years for both Mobil and then Xom, I can tell you that both companies were run and managed well at the top. Employee wages and benefits were at the top quartile of their industries. The oil business has not always been lucrative as there have been a number of down years when hiring freezes were the norm. I’d recommend this industry to any young person right now who wanted a well paying career and who is willing to perhaps learn a building trade or break into operations (college degree not required) as the gray hairs are getting long and we don’t see enough youth willing to get their hands dirty and would rather work selling ladies shoes.
   I recall a funny story at Mobil during a Q and A with then chairman Lou Noto, a question was asked to Lou why Mobil would want to sell portions of it business in the oil patch. Lou’s reply was quick and shocking to many, “I’m not in the oil business, I’m in the business to make money, why I’d sell my daughter for the right price!

   Posted by Gizmo       07/27/2006  at  01:46 PM  



3. If we don’t like the price we pay for gas, we can’t blame the oil companies.  The ones setting the price for crude are the movers and shakers on Wall Street.  The price for this commodity hasn’t been about supply and demand for a very long time.

   Posted by WarWagon       07/27/2006  at  03:19 PM  



4. Too bad this guy looks like Jabba’s ugly brother - just reinforces the shallow thinking of the lunabats.

   Posted by Rickvid       07/27/2006  at  05:02 PM  



5. so then it’s not the cost of a barrel !!

   Posted by Officer Pupp       07/27/2006  at  07:22 PM  



6. This situation is just soooooooo much more complicated than big profits and big perks to the CEOs - but I agree a lot of blame goes to the robber barons on Wall Street who do nothing but gamble with every company, invested penny and livlihoods of most of the world based on cheating, hunches and the effects of glowball warming. . .

   I suspect the politicos when credit card companies rip off more of America (and invade everyone’s privacy to do it - my 18 yo is getting tons of ‘offers’ now) without control, not to mention the ‘wonderful and oh so helpful’ pharma corps that are creating and making up diseases to sell worthless and potentially dangerous drugs at outragious profits.

   And don’t even get me started on the entertainment, sports or ever wasteful media industries.

   If it is worthless and wasteful - the left embraces it and if it is necessary - it’s contemptable.

   However, had I ever read that ‘. . .sell my daughter for the right price’ comment - I’d have no sypathy for the devil oil CEOs at all, ever.

   Oh well, as I started with - this issue is just sooooo complicated.

   Posted by wardmama4       07/29/2006  at  12:13 PM  

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