Snipped from AP.org.

Way to go America! Just in case you can’t read such large numbers, the title says 11 billion dollars in one quarter, that’s just 3 months! And don’t forget, that is NET profit, not gross. Net is after you subtract ALL expenses, and that is what you actually put in your pocket. From all of you continuing to purchase Exxon-Mobile gas, you just made them the largest net profit EVER from operating as a US based corporation. While many of my classmates can’t go to class because they can’t afford the gas, you keep rewarding Exxon for their unethical treatment of the American public.

We have published article after article about how Exxon, among many others, keep manipulating American perception and government by lobbying with these billions of dollars so that you, Joe America, keep blinded by what these conglomerates are doing behind their nice, pretty façade. NO! This is not how a free market should run. NO! This is not how a capitalistic society should operate. How long are we going to pretend that these corporations and their bitch, the American government, have our best interest. Their only interest is the shareholders wallet at any expense, even the collapse of our economy!

Let me attempt to enlighten you even further. Guess what?! This $11,000,000,000 in net profit in 3 months worth of gas sales was under what they estimated, so the shareholders are upset! Yea! It wasn’t enough profit. This profit of $11B was no accident, it is not just good fortune that they made this much money from all of us. It was planned and executed for them to make $13,000,000,000 at $2.52 a share, but unfortunately they full short. Ahh.

Does anyone out there actually care about this, or are we just too apathetic to give a shit? Do you just care too much about your SUV and your Walmart trinket purchasing to redirect your attention?

Here is a small portion of the article:

Exxon Mobil Corp. reported second-quarter earnings of $11.68 billion Thursday, the biggest profit from operations ever by any U.S. corporation, but the results were well short of Wall Street expectations and its shares slumped 3 percent.

The world’s largest publicly traded oil company said net income for the April-June period came to $2.22 a share, up from $10.26 billion, or $1.83 a share, a year ago.

Revenue rose 40 percent to $138.1 billion from $98.4 billion in the year-earlier quarter.

Excluding an after-tax charge of $290 million related to an Exxon Valdez court settlement, earnings amounted to $11.97 billion, or $2.27 per share.

Analysts on average expected Exxon Mobil to earn $2.52 a share on revenue of $144 billion, according to a survey by Thomson Financial. The estimates typically exclude one-time items.

The record-setting results were largely expected, given that crude prices in the second quarter were nearly double what they were a year ago. Natural gas prices were significantly higher too.