$55,000 per MINUTE

[lord odin]

Originally Posted by joy_division

I was waiting at the bus stop one day, and this MASSIVE SUV came along. Of course, the driver was on the LEFT side.

My friend drives a ford expedition and when he was buying it a few years ago he said he wanted the Hummer I told him he was nuts to buy it seeing how he could barely afford the expedition.
Another friend I use to work with works at a dealership and he said some of the guys that buy these expensive suv`s can barely afford it or buy gas for it but it`s a status symbol.

[Zurbaran1]

Originally Posted by rychehitman

"John Browne, the chief executive of BP, confirmed today that he would leave the giant oil company at the end of 2008, after reaching its mandatory retirement age of 60. At the same time, the company announced a profit of $7.27 billion in the second quarter, 30 percent more than the comparable period a year ago and the equivalent of more than $55,000 a minute."


You know...this makes me:

Sick,
Mad,
and feel really really stupid!


Why do we Americans put up with this sh!t?

Hey Ryche don't come down too hard on them. Looks like Exxon did a little better:

Profits at Exxon Mobil surged 36 percent to a near record $10.4 billion in the second quarter as surging oil prices helped the world's largest publicly traded company soundly beat Wall Street forecasts.
The company's profit - which amounts to a cool $1,318 a second - is the second biggest ever reported by a U.S. company, behind only the $10.7 billion Exxon itself earned in the fourth quarter of 2005.

That $1,318/sec comes to a cool $79,080 per minute. Somebody at BP should be fired for only pulling in $55,000 per minute.

If this doesn't wake folks nothing will. And it probably won't.

[Avenger]

Originally Posted by Zurbaran1

Hey Ryche don't come down too hard on them. Looks like Exxon did a little better:

Profits at Exxon Mobil surged 36 percent to a near record $10.4 billion in the second quarter as surging oil prices helped the world's largest publicly traded company soundly beat Wall Street forecasts.
The company's profit - which amounts to a cool $1,318 a second - is the second biggest ever reported by a U.S. company, behind only the $10.7 billion Exxon itself earned in the fourth quarter of 2005.

That $1,318/sec comes to a cool $79,080 per minute. Somebody at BP should be fired for only pulling in $55,000 per minute.

If this doesn't wake folks nothing will. And it probably won't.

Problem is too many people just roll over and take it

[lord odin]

Originally Posted by Avenger

Problem is too many people just roll over and take it

Hey no porn talk on this site.

[Ink]

really, if you think about it, over a dollar a gallon of that is in just taxes

[Ink]

Originally Posted by lord odin

My friend drives a ford expedition and when he was buying it a few years ago he said he wanted the Hummer I told him he was nuts to buy it seeing how he could barely afford the expedition.
Another friend I use to work with works at a dealership and he said some of the guys that buy these expensive suv`s can barely afford it or buy gas for it but it`s a status symbol.

I drive a sportscar that only runs on premium, but it's surprisingly good on gas

[RichBamf]

This happens because capitalism only helps the top five percent of people.

[Sniper]

Originally Posted by Daredevil

our government is more pro-big business than pro-citizens. It has always been that way, unfortunately.

it has been like this since the begining, our so called fathers of the US, they we rich white males that did not want to pay taxes. How did they solve this, independence