Thursday, October 26, 2006

Nice Dollars

Exxon Mobil posts $10.49B profit in 3Q - Yahoo! News: "DALLAS - Oil industry behemoth Exxon Mobil's earnings rose to $10.49 billion in the third quarter, the second-largest quarterly profit ever recorded by a publicly traded U.S. company. Its shares briefly rose to a 52-week high.

The report Thursday comes as high crude prices this year have fueled record profits in the oil industry, triggering an outcry from consumers who were being asked to pay about $3 a gallon for gasoline in early August..."

So let's not raise the minimum wage.

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