$36 billion [posted by ZelderBar] Did you hear about Exxon's record profits? Here's a quote:Exxon Mobil got the oil companies' profit season underway in spectacular fashion yesterday by announcing a 42pc jump in full-year net income to $36.1billion (£20.3billion). In global terms Exxon has effectively emerged as the world's 49th biggest "economy" with profits in excess of the gross national product of 125 of the 184 countries figuring in World Bank statistics. Here's a question, why are the people in the middle east among the poorest in the world? Don't they live on the world's richest resource? Oh, wait, where does oil profit go?
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