Higher oil prices boost Exxon 4Q profit 2 percent

IT IS TIME THAT WE VOTE EVERYONE OUT OF OFFICE THAT IS IN NOW THERE NOW

Public enemy number 1....Big Oil !!

I may not be no rocket scientist, but I can't help but notice that the price if crude has been around a hundred bucks or less, for the last four weeks, however, the price at the pump has shot up between 45 and 50 cents a gallon (depending on where you go to get gouged) during this same time.
every time I hear some bull story, all I hear is "no one is making any money on that"
if nobody ain't making money, where is the loot going?
is it being shot through the roof for the fist 10 months of this year, so it can drop down to two bucks a barrel or so for three weeks in november?.....is it turning into pixie dust?
where, oh where has the money went?

WHEN GAS IS IN DEMAND GAS PRICES GO UP!WHEN OIL PRICES GO UP GAS PRICES GO UP! NOW WHEN GAS IS IN FAR LESS DEMAND GAS PRICES GO UP!OIL PRICES ARE ON A SMALL DECLINE GAS PRICES GO UP!CAN ANYONE HERE SEE THERE IS PRICE FIXING AND GOUGING GOING ON!WHERE THE #$%$ IS OUR GOVERNMENT WHEN YOU NEED THEM!!!SUPER FRUSTRATING!

in other news the average joe is deciding wether he should put gas in his car tomorrow to get to work or go to the store to feed his family.

Since people can,t afford to buy a home when prices and interest rates are at all time lowes and gasoline heating oil and diesel are at a all time high maybe EXXON MOBILE can donate some empty oil barrels for people to live in.

Public Enemy #1 --- big oil?

If you don't like big oil, stop using it. That includes, but is not limited to: plastic, heating oil, jet fuel, rubber tires, asphalt, lubricants, synthetic fibers l(ike nylon, rayon, polyester, etc), natural gas, propane, bunker fuel (ship fuel), diesel fuel, and gasoline. Remember stopping oil use means both direct use AND indirect use. Keep in mind there is a food grade oil that is produced from crude oil as well, it is used in packaging (canning if I am not mistaken), so you would need to stay away from that as well. Add to that fertilizer, cosmetics and probably steel and electricity, since steel production uses petroleum coke, and electricity is produced from coal, oil and/or natural gas. This means no cars, no trains, no planes, no trucks, far fewer roads, among other things. Utility poles are soaked in creosote or other wood preservative, so you can't use anything that uses utility poles either. You can't switch to wood to head your house unless you cut all of the wood by hand with tools you already have. Buying a chainsaw would be out as it woud force you to use asphalt, rubber tires, gasoline, plastic, steel, electricity, among many other oil, oil-based, or oil driven products.

revenues for the year up 26.9% profits up 34.8%. Can you say price gouging? All this when demand is down. This type of greed is what is keeping the economy from any real recovery. People are spending too much of their disposable income on gasoline and heating oil prices. The Northeast is experiencing an extremely mild winter. You people who disagree with my analogy tell me why I just paid $3.69 a gallon for heating oil., when demand certainly is way down? This is pure unbashful greed in its worst form.

How is that every time the price of crude oil is up these companies making more money?
In my mind, they should make the same amount or less because demand tends to drop when prices go up. They only way this is possible is that they increase they profit margins by tagging on their addition price increases to the already high price of crude.

Exxon up, American Down. It will be like this until Gas is well below $2.00/gallon. I love how our top economists and Presidents stand up on stage act all bewildered as to what is happening with the economy and nobody has the nerve to say "stop the corruption and lower fuel costs" Cutting fuel price in half is a $600 BILLION stimulus. The Bush Tax cuts are only 120 billion/year. And the gov loses revenue on business with fuel expenses. If oil was cut in half, the right offs would be chopped in half as well.

This is where the extra money for the economy is located. Maybe they all will be generous and buy us poor folk something, huh?

You're missing one important part. While the price of crude oil is related to the retail price of gasoline (and other oil-based products), a good number of the oil-based fuels (heating oil, kerosene, diesel, gasoline and others) are traded separately - on different contracts and possibly in different volumes, and with different delivery locations for the various contracts. Even though all of thoise products are based on crude oil, their prices can, and do, move differently - in both amount and direction - than the price of crude oil, more often than not. While I haven't looked lately, the price of oil has been relatively stable recently, but the price of the gasoline contract may have moved significantly in the same time period. If the gasoline contract price moves significantly, there is a reasonable chance that the retail price of gasoline will reflect that move. Maybe not immediately, but eventually.

Would it be possible to 'get off oil'? Only if you can figure out substitutes for heating oil, diesel fuel, jet fuel, bunker (ship) fuel, plastic, tire rubber and asphalt, lubricants, among a host of other products. Oh yeak, and gasoline too. The substitute _has_ to be made readily available nationwide in order to get away from oil.

The U,S. Burns 19 MIllion barrels of OIL Per Day. The world Burns 89 million barrels of oil Per Day. We have to stop burning Much Less Oil to bring the price down and reduce oil company profits.

name should be crooksonmobile.

Just like Washinton DC do alot less work be crooked and greedy and get paid a heck of alot more.

It's wonderful how the price of oil has been stable within a range of $2 a barrel for weeks but gas and diesel prices have been steadily climbing. When you have enough politicians on the payroll, you can do whatever you want.

They are just plain greedy!