Wanna guess how much 2005 profit was made by just three Big Oil Companies?

[john3976]

Exxon's profit for the year was also the largest annual reported net income in U.S. history, according to Howard Silverblatt, a stock market analyst for Standard & Poor's. He said the previous high was Exxon's $25.3 billion profit in 2004.

Exxon's results lifted the combined 2005 profits for the country's three largest integrated oil companies to more than $63 billion.

ConocoPhillips said last Wednesday that its fourth-quarter earnings rose 51 percent to $3.68 billion, while annual income climbed 66 percent to $13.53 billion. Two days later, Chevron Corp. said its fourth-quarter earnings rose 20 percent to $4.14 billion, while annual income jumped 6 percent to $14.1 billion.

63 Billion in profits and that is just three of the oil companies, Exxon, ConocoPhillips and Chevron. Add in all the other Big Oil Companies and I bet we are looking at close to 175 Billion dollars of profit for Big Oil in 2005.

Now where I come from that is a lot of money!