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[Rick Lindsay]

This has been my expectation for years.  With any
product that we CHOOSE to use indiscriminately and
without regard to supply, the first solution
recommended is always big government control - as if
that would work.  Okay, lets try it.  Send Hillary out
there to find the next oil discovery.

rick - geophysicist in oil and gas exploration

--- don <don at napanet.net> wrote:

> I wouldn't say they need to be charities, but maybe
> nationalized would be 
> one way to deal with their power to screw us all- 
> not just with the 
> prices/profits, but their use of it to lobby
> governments, to hire 
> mercenaries in other countries to get oil, and to
> finance public opinion 
> manipulating think tanks here in the US.
> 
> 
> Washington Post Staff Writer
> Friday, February 2, 2007; Page D01
> 
> It was a hard act to follow, but 
>
<http://financial.washingtonpost.com/custom/wpost/html-qcn.asp?dispnav=business&mwpage=qcn&symb=XOM&nav=el>Exxon
> 
> Mobil has managed quite an encore.
> 
> After ringing up the biggest annual profit figure in
> U.S. corporate history 
> in 2005, Exxon Mobil yesterday announced that it
> topped that number in 
> 2006. Riding the wave of high crude oil and gasoline
> prices, the company 
> reported a profit of $39.5 billion, up 9 percent
> from the year before.
> 
> 
> 
> 
> 
> 
> At 06:13 PM 09/22/2007, David Breneman wrote:
> 
> >--- RampantNM at aol.com wrote:
> >
> > > Because they don't HAVE to.  Oil companies are
> profit making mother
> > > fu....Ah... I mean ,,,enterprises.
> >
> >I suppose you believe they should operate as
> charities?
> >
> >
> >David Breneman         david_breneman at yahoo.com
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