Friday, October 28, 2005

Well At Least Somebody Is Benefitting

ExxonMobil had profits of nearly $10 billion this quarter.

The United States consumes about 36.5 billion gallons of gasoline per quarter.

ExxonMobil has about 20% of all gasoline sales in the United States.

So here's the math:

20% of 36.5 billion gallons equals 7.3 billion gallons.
$10 billion divided by 7.3 billion gallons equals:

$1.36 profit for Exxon for each gallon you buy. Not bad, eh?

What... you didn't think that those higher gas prices were going to effect the oil companies did you? Silly rabbit. They passed all that along to you... and then a little more as well.

Here's some more math:

You buy 20 gallons per week for 50 weeks... that's 1,000 gallons of gas.

Are you going to give Exxon Mobil $1,360 in profit this year?

Can I make a suggestion?
$229... on sale.

No comments: