Thursday, July 27, 2006
Gas
As you go out and pay $3.40 a gallon for gas for your car, remember to show a little sympathy for Exxon. They were only able to make $1,318 a second last quarter. And they had to give its outgoing CEO Lee Raymond a retirement package worth about $350 million last year - which was a record profit quarter until this year. And this quarter is the highest profit ever recorded by a company - ever.
