Stop me if you've heard this one before.

Record petrol prices at the pump = ?

Actual CNN headline : Exxon has biggest U.S. profit ever

Well duh!

For the year, Exxon Mobil earned $39.5 billion, up from its previous record $36.1 billion in 2005. According to the stuffed shirts, this of course has nothing at all to do with the $3 gallon at the pump last year. Nothing. It's just pure coincidence. You would apparently need to be mentally unbalanced to equate record oil company profits with crippling petrol prices. At least that's the message Exxon are sending out with today's publicity blitz on the news channels.

Come on, Exxon. We're smarter than that. Just tell us the truth. You rape people blind for petrol so you can keep your fat, greedy, selfish shareholders and VPs rich. That's all there is to it.

Comments

Myra Langerhas said…
Netherlands Amsterdam $6.48
Norway Oslo $6.27
Italy Milan $5.96
Denmark Copenhagen $5.93
Belgium Brussels $5.91
Sweden Stockholm $5.80
United Kingdom London $5.79
Germany Frankfurt $5.57
France Paris $5.54
Portugal Lisbon $5.35
Hungary Budapest $4.94
Luxembourg $4.82
Croatia Zagreb $4.81
Ireland Dublin $4.78
Switzerland Geneva $4.74
Spain Madrid $4.55
Japan Tokyo $4.24
Czech Republic Prague $4.19
Romania Bucharest $4.09
Andorra $4.08
Estonia Tallinn $3.62
Bulgaria Sofia $3.52
Brazil Brasilia $3.12
Cuba Havana $3.03
Taiwan Taipei $2.84
Lebanon Beirut $2.63
South Africa Johannesburg $2.62
Nicaragua Managua $2.61
Panama Panama City $2.19
Russia Moscow $2.10
Puerto Rico San Juan $1.74
Saudi Arabia Riyadh $0.91
Kuwait Kuwait City $0.78
Egypt Cairo $0.65
Nigeria Lagos $0.38
Venezuela Caracas $0.12

I paid $2.23 for gas this morn.

Funny I dont feel raped. Fat greedy shareholders? Do you know what a 401k is?
Chris said…
A most excellent cut-and-paste job. Now please go and find the tax rate for each of those countries and show the price BEFORE tax. It's far more telling. You'll find America is now one of the higher base prices pre-tax.
Just as an example, with the fuel duty escalator, fuel tax and VAT in England, petrol is taxed three times and comes in at an equivalent 414% tax rate. ie. before tax, petrol in England is roughly $1.39.
Myra Langerhas said…
Oh. I guess it is so much more pleasant to be 'raped' by the fat cat greedy people in government.
Anonymous said…
That cut and paste would have been a bit more useful if it gave us a clue as to what it's actually on about.

If it's the cost per (US) Gallon of petrol (Gasoline), I'd really like to know where I can get petrol in the UK as cheap as US $5.79 per US Gallon.

Today, I paid US $6.48 for the equivalent of a US Gallon of petrol in the United Kingdom.

Thing is, that's fairly cheap for here... if you don't shop around, it's possible to pay quite a bit more.

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