the most profitable quarter for any business in history: about $90,000 per minute!

And 40,000 in taxes per minute

Oh? Where did you find that number? I'd like to read more about it.

Sillysam can only produce hot air.

To bad you can't power a car with that, or can you?

sillysam,

More like $10 billion in subsidies in 2007. Exxon is basically the beneficiary of reverse-socialism. This isn't capitalism.

Even if sillysam were correct, I'd call $50,000 a minute selfish profiteering. These pirates sell us the raw materials that drive the American economy, and they sell them at MASSIVE, unparalleled profit.
They hold us hostage to pay whatever they demand. I don't want us to get free from Middle East oil alone - I want us to get free from Exxon.