Sep 7, 2012 ... Last year, the three biggest U.S. oil companies took home more than $80 billion in profit. Exxon pocketed nearly $4.7 million every hour.” In addition, Obama's automotive fuel standards, further discussed below, will dramatically reduce demand for all oil – domestic or imported – in the United States in the ...
Apr 19, 2012 ... ... the U.S. oil majors have been generating huge profits. As U.S. President Barack Obama pointed out in a recent speech urging Congress to repeal tax breaks for the oil industry, “the three biggest U.S. oil companies took home more than $80 billion in profits. Exxon pocketed nearly $4.7 million every hour.
May 4, 2012 ... We look at one of the largest and most powerful corporations in the world: ExxonMobil. Last week, the corporate giant reported it earned $9.5 billion in profits in the first three months of this year — or almost $104 million per day. We speak with Pulitzer Prize-winning reporter Steve Coll, who pulls back the ...
Steve Benen: President Obama spoke from the White House's South Lawn this morning, urging Congress to end the $4 billion in tax subsidies oil and natural gas companies receive from the government every year. Obama noted that “Exxon pocketed nearly $4.7 million every hour” last year, and simply doesn't need ...
Jun 26, 2007 ... Peter Rose, a Seattle-based corporate chief executive offficer, took home $4.7 million last year. He thinks that's quite enough. “There's only so much crap you can ... Goolsbee calculates that Ellison would have to spend over “$183,000 an hour on things that can't be resold, like parties or meals, just to avoid ...
Last year, "Exxon pocketed nearly $4.7 million every hour."