From The New York Times, 4/27/07: http://www.nytimes.com/2007/04/27/business/27exxon.html?_r=1 &ref=business&oref=slogin Exxon Mobil Earnings Rise 10 Percent By CLIFFORD KRAUSS HOUSTON — Despite a winter of relatively soft oil and natural gas prices, Exxon Mobil on Thursday reported another surge in profit for the first quarter of the year because of stronger earnings from its refining, marketing and chemicals businesses. Exxon’s continuing good fortunes — it said the results were its best ever for any first quarter — were particularly noteworthy given the mixed earnings picture reported in recent days by other large oil companies. Most of them cannot match the cost management and range of investments held by the world’s largest publicly traded oil company. Exxon, BP, ConocoPhillips, Occidental, Hess and other companies that reported this week generally acknowledged that profits from oil sales, though still hefty, had slowed in recent months. While oil prices had climbed from an average of $20 a barrel through much of the 1990s to a record of more than $78 a barrel last July, oil prices settled to prices of $55 to $65 during the early months of the year. ____________________________________________ Happy motoring -- Relpo Miraculous ROFL! http://www.omencity.com/blog/ Remove YOUR SHORTS to reply

Relpo Miraculous <World@Gone.Mad> tapped the mic and said news:MPG.209c24b8dd5b468d989a42@news.giganews.com: > From The New York Times, 4/27/07: > http://www.nytimes.com/2007/04/27/business/27exxon.html?_r=1 > &ref=business&oref=slogin > > Exxon Mobil Earnings Rise 10 Percent > > By CLIFFORD KRAUSS > > HOUSTON - It's nice to see the little guys like Exxon, with a tinch over 1% of the market, succeed for a change in a business mainly dominated by socialist gangster run state owned megopolies. -- __________________________________________________________________ ____________ ______ ____ / ___/ _ / |/ / _ )/ __ \ /___ / // / / _ / /_/ / |____/_--_/_/|_/_/____/\____/ Producer & Stocker of the Beer Fridge --------------------------------------------------------------------- Saskatchewan Surf Association Keeper of the forbidden vowel, "z"