SCREW OIL COMPANIES!!! They are - for most of them - bunch of thieves run by homosexuals and perverts hungry between their legs! Oil companies managers are all bandits and bunch of hypocrits good at sucking hard donkeys asses!!!
OIL COs, FUCK YOURSELVES, serve oil to your kids and may cyclones and GOdmade disasters SCREW ALL OF THE PROFITS so those Managers will be JOBLESS...AMEN.
there's a difference between profit and profit margin, profits get eaten up by things like ooooohhhh, I don't know, operational costs, research and developement, environmental tech (yes, one oil company pays more for enviro tech research than all you jobless hippies combined) and paying people to work, profit MARGIN is what's left over. Avon has a higher profit margin than exxon, dumbasses. High school economics much?
wytkracke Thats the biggest load of shit i have ever heard. justify the ridiculas amount of 100's of millions of dollars these monopolistic oil companies pay there CEo's and board of directors at the expense of jane and john doe public. wonder who butters your bread?. me hippie lol. son i was a delagate at the last (R) convention and im a gulf war vet so kiss the shrapnel in my ass, its a direct result of keeping oil prices high
where you at now tough guy. Three months ago and the gas prices are where? get back into your cubicle and let us diesel drivers build the nation. Question to you mister/misses isn't diesel cheaper to make? Thought so and most of you oil faggots are destroying our nation. High school econ much? Ya, you make sense, and you call us americans dumbasses. Take your bosses dick out of your ass and shut the fuck up and let the public speak the truth. Your comments mean nothing to us real consumers.
BillyBad your an idiot.. war does cost money for both sides but who do you think makes money from weapons and bombs.... dont say it costs money its weak argument as theres always gonna be a party profiting off of it someway (cash, oil or other resource as payment) we need to get rid of all these fanatics and dumb people.... education dosent seem to be working..... :(
1) Oil Companies make 10 cents a gallon in crude after Taxes and Transport which makes up there "Billions" via volume (after Subsidies)
2) Refiners are contractors that buy from Oil Companies at that 10 cents Profits and tack on their costs before Selling to Wholesalers
3) Wholesalers set the Market price via demand and supply in addion to their cost as they sell it to Gas Station owners that are either Franchises or Independents...only 5% of Gas Stations are actually own by "Big Oil"
The auto industry designs concept cars that can solve the high gas demand problem, but refuse to market them. We need Plug-in hybrid electric vehicles. Loss of revenue can make large companies, even the auto industries; change their "business model". Sure the government can help with legislation to force them to put out new technology, but the true power is in our hands. Stop buying or leasing NEW gasoline powered cars for a year. Tell everyone to wait a year. See my vids.
EXXON MOBIL SHELL BP, thank goodness there are these great oil companies that invest their resources into drilling for more oil and alternative methods of natural energy. thank goodness they lived through the really bad times and are able to amount such grest profitd for future investemnts!!!!
Billy i know you a simple minded oil co. cheerleader but come on we have conquered the middle east ALL OIL IS TRADED IN US DOLLARS. WE WILL SOON BE GOING TO WAR WITH IRAN BECAUSE THEY WILL SOON OPEN A OIL EXCHANGE AND TRADE IN euros Go GET A EDUCATION IN REALITY
even at $175 barrel it is cheeper than waging war. if it were over oil we should have conquored all the middleeast by now and let the sand fleas live in squaller!!
dunno bout you but i dont see that happening.
as for this country being bankrupt FAR FROM IT !!!
does this mean canada the uk and eu are too?
since i know you havent looked they owe as much per capita as we d moron!!! lmfao
Actually if the Oil COmpanies had no "Life Support" from Governments via Subsidies and tax Breaks they would be $7-$14 in the red a Gallon instad of 10 cents a Gallon in the Black. Hard thing is that the world uses 80 million Barrels a day and to keep the world Economy Stable the Governments of the World need to spoonfeed any Company willing to waste time pumping Oil instead of doing more profitable things so Exxon,Chevron, and such are actually Welfared Companies and Suckers.
Exxon sucks and I banned them back in '94. sOME ADVICE FOR YOU SAVESA: You have a valid argument and we're all pissed off but you are not handling your complaint in a way that will get real attention. You don't an answering service dummy. There's a way to complain and get results and there's a wrong way and you did it the wrong way.
why not sell your car and get your fat ass on a bike, instead of harrassing innocent call center operators. they are just trying to work, like the rest of the rat race.
legion.. My question is, are you being paid to counter my
valid points? the media has already proven (ABC Nails EXXON and Republicans for FAKE Al Gore Video)that Exxon has a covert advertising campaign here on youtube
I'm an electrical engineering student you paranoid asshole. Go harass more emergency service numbers and ask them why things cost money. I'll help out by calling my Bellsouth emergency service number and ask them why DSL service requires money.
legion....your missing the point ..companies have a right
to make a tidy profit.but they are price gouging,thats a crime. maybe when you grow up and have to support yourself you will understand and not act like a spoiled child.I will continue my efforts to find collusion among the decedents of standard oil and to have the Sherman act reapplied and have them broken up even more, so as too further the true American Way "fair competition" ..
Legion2....Whatkind of idiot makes a comment that makes no sense or is not even close to target.Thats right its you...DID you actually listen to the call??? I did not call 911...I called exxon and the only # that Exxon has a live person answering..is their health and safety line..I did not ask about healthcare I asked about oil and gasoline...Get a clue,,jr
You called their emergency line, asshole. You would call it in cases like a gas station catches on fire. Maybe not a gas station, what if you were on a transport ship and witnessed an offshore oil rig explosion? Or what about an oil spill? Besides you're wrong about oil companies ripping us off. The US government makes more in taxes than oil companies off every gallon of gas.
Legion2....listen you little prick. Emergency is 911...and in case of a emergency at sea u contact the coast guard or us navy.. Gas station explodes contact fire department. you do not call exxon and give them a chance to cover-up a mishap. ..
Legion2.... and as far as oil companies ripping us off, you are just regergitating exxons point of view, in reality they manipulate the futers market so as to hide the real profit margin. They cook there books....and the US does over tax gas...I hope I have educated you...
You haven't educated me in anything. You have to have proof to do that. Of course, I don't think we should have broken up Standard Oil. We wouldn't have had nearly so many problems in the middle east had we just left standard oil intact.
Legion...Legion...please explain to the readers why in your opinion Standard should have remained intact? because I agree with it being broken up and the SHERMAN act should be applied to these large oil companies again, I Believe along with the SUPREME court (1910-1911)"Standard raised prices to its monopolistic customers, but lowered them to hurt competitors, often disguising its illegal actions by using bogus supposedly "independent" companies it controlled"
legion...as far as the middle east and STANDARD it would not have made a difference, Standard refined oil from here in the US and produced mostly kerosene, we really did not start importing oil until the 1920's. from the Middle East. .
And that kerosine decreased in price every year Standard operated, until the government split them up. You think as we made the transition to gasoline that standard was going to sit on their thumbs? Hell, no. They'd be over in the middle east securing 200 year contracts with the kings over there in 1920. Unfortunately we had to weaken US business and so all the kings went with nationalized businesses.
legion...nice fairytale dream there....200 yr contracts..lmfao....your a spoiled...child....so you think we should nationalize all large industries and become communists???and allow big biz dictate to us..Iwill not allow thattohappenonmywatch
No, but if we had standard oil we would have an american walmart of the oil industry today, which would be able to leverage better deals than the us government could ever do through warfare.
legion....sounds to me you have a kinship and a knowledge of the inner working of the oil industry,care to elaborate? my knowledge starts as a young serviceman serving in the first Gulf war,while on R&R I was hosted by american families who worked for oil companies in the gulf,which later led to a job in a oil related field...
Bzzt. Sorry. He's got a hydrogen burner there. He's just making the hydrogen by electrolyzing water, a 100+ year old technology. And very inefficient. If you have electricity and want to power a car, use batteries. Using it to make hydrogen is MUCH less efficient. Oil companies like hydrogen cars because it keeps them in business.
Or do what I do: ride a bike most of the time. YES, you CAN too do it; paraplegics can ride bikes, you can.
Yeah, that's a bummer. Happily I'm a programmer, so all I need to get to work is myself and my lunch, so I get to ride 20+ miles a day. It's WAY more fun than driving, which I used to like until I discovered cycling; now I hate driving in comparison, even in the rain and snow cycling is still better.
Hey people, if you look in history in and around the 1940's oil and rubber companies bought almost all of the mass transit systems in cities in order to force us to buy cars so we would have to buy oil and rubber products. Not to mention the cars themselves which are now overpriced. In the 60's and 70's you could get a car brand new for less than 2000 dollars. You can't blame that much of an increase in price on inflation either. Do your own research...
america needs to find better transport system. i agree. like in korea, you can live your whole life without needing a car (a bike maybe) you can get around cheap with buses, subways, and trains. taxies are bit expensive though.
I live in the UK and so therefore don't have first hand experience of the current political climate in the states. Having said that the worlds media do take a keen interest in America's current affairs and what I've been lead to believe (perhaps through bias sources) i find quite distressing. I think Liberal America has a responsibility to themselves and the world to make sure an "administration" like the current one can never be in power again.
oil companies are the demon,but We americans are to blame for not standing up against them and stop them from
taking so much of our $ from our hard earned pockets. It is deplorable we do not have better public transportation , It would help us emensly on the world stage,if we were not so dependent on foreign oil.What forms of mass transit you think would work best?
Dude! I think you missed one of my earlier postin this video. "Savesa (1 day ago)
""You are paying too much for gas. and true EUROPE pays more than anyone. "" any helpful advice on solutions you have found on your side of the pond would be greatly aprreciated...
savesa you sound half intelligent, so i'm surprised with your rash comments. What's this all about shorter holidays in the states? Dear god man you could not be further from the truth. And your right "bitching" is not going to help anything and neither is chatting on youtube, or for that matter voting in bush for a second term. But what will is invading the second biggest oil producing nation in the world. Well done America your leader (dick Chaney) is actually the anti- Christ.
BUSH was a mistake...He has broken laws,he should be impeached. and yes I take part of that blame my vote was cast for the moron.but then Dick would have the helm, not good. 2 1/2 years more I hope we make it that long.....
label1877 ...Three cheers for EXXON???? Dude is that 3 cheers for price Gouging,price fixing,short suppling ???????? Do you like getting bent over at the pump?
Sir,you are wrong.Oil profits are way up but,a recent non-partisian government commision just found NO EVIDENCE of price gouging.If you must bitch,demand a tax break on gasoline because tax collections are WAY UP on gasoline because of the higher prices.
Are we to believe a government investigation, ?? with your argument makes me think your bread is buttered by the OIL industry...or you have a butt load of oil stock....how can u defend these robber barons, would you have defended standard oil too??
label1877....and if you are refering to the FTC report after Katrina "The Federal Trade Commission also determined in a longer-range finding that during the past 20 years refiners didn't seek to manipulate prices by cutting the number of operating refineries or limiting increases in capacity. " the only reason price gouging charges could not be brought was because collusion could not beproven.....but every american knows we are being bent over at the pump,not just by the tax.
label.....a Government Accountability Office study of eight mergers in the 1990s that found a majority of those corporate moves led to increases in the wholesale gas price of 1 to 7 cents per gallon quote from senator feinstein
i agree about the bitching, but then, he didn't deserve the "i don't give a shit" by the serverice. atleast the lady could be more POLITE about it. american manners these days. so bad.
You just called that woman a Nazi.. and you quoted "Clerks"...
...Did you just associate us paying more for oil based products to the deaths of 6 million jewish people?...
You also said something about "American egos(Myself included) won't allow us to give'em up".. Does that mean you have an SUV?. I don't think you've achieved anything here. Except maybe just belittling the Holocaust to price gouging.
Felacio....I did not call HER a nazi.it was a analogy,a over dramtic one at that. I apolagize. I did not meanto belittle the jews who lost their life's in the holocoust and all other person the nazi's persecuted .what line from clerks did i quote? I do respect Kevin Smith as a filmmaker and would give him credit if i did inadvertently channeled "jay"
Felacio... I did drive a big dually 4X4 crew cab for many years, half job related/half ego (my tuck bigger than yours BS) I nowdrive a deisal, hopefully I can soon afford a Vegetable fuel kit like from http://www.greasecar.com ..wheather I acheive anything or not is not the point, I can only try....
From clerks the Chewlies gum rep. says "You know who else was only doing there jobs?.. the NAZIS" when Dante says he's just doing his job.
I think it's great your going to convert your Diesel, thats a vastly great step in the right direction. I personally just didn't agree with your method with this video is all. You seem on the level, and I respect the fact that you didn't resort to flaming. :)
Plot Outline: A documentary that investigates the birth and death of the electric car, as well as the role of renewable energy and sustainable living in the future.see video clip http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0489037/ does anyone know how to get a copy
ha you guys like to bitch about oil prices i live in the uk and we have to pay about a pound a liter which is about a dollar 85 in america so we are paying about 5 to 6 times as much as you guys but we dont bitch about it u guys get it lucky over there having everything so cheap all the time but all u can do is still whine about it mind u i would still choose england over america anyday
YOUR bitching about me bitching does not helpfind a solution....We pay less for gas because we are taxed less on it. UK taxes higher because they as a giverment have less funding sources. we pay less on consumer goods because we buy more (%). Americans on average work harder and longer hours then there uk counter parts, we have much less "holiday time", you have more holiday because earlier uk generations BITCHED. Now instead of bitching about my bitching help with a solution.
how does that work? most people in this country work for 40 hours a week and for less pay then u and we only get 3 weeks holiday a year and the reason we pay so much tax here is coz we have one of the best hospitals and police and stuff here unlike there which u get to carry guns around and dont give me crap about u work harder lol it shows your one of the lazyist countrys in the world i for one work 12 hours a day 5 days a week and i got a small house most houses here are small unlike there
Keiron its great your such a big cheerleader for the UK, people should be proud of their country.. We are all in the same boat, paying way to much for oil...Now as far as finding solutions can you tell us about the public transportation in the UK, I hear its one of the best in the world.
ty for the comment...Gliiidter..You are paying too much for gas. and true EUROPE pays more than anyone. Here's how i understand this works we all pay about the same amount for gas the reason you and europe pays more is because you folks are taxed more,where TEXAS is about 50cents per gallon,In Europe, fuel tax can amount to more than 75% of the price at the pump. Comparatively, gas taxes in Canada represent approximately 40% of the price...GAS before taxes is over priced...
Ok, I live in eastern Canada, and the price right now is 1.19$ a Leter. I looked up a gallon, and its 3.785 L a gallon. so, that means im paying 4.542$ a gallon here. Beat that? hahah. I hear its much worse in places like Britain, where prices are as high as 2.40$ a Leter, or 9.084$ a gallon. quite impressive
Great JOB!!! I love it that you took the time to do this. When are the people in this country going to stand up to the corruption. Every little bit of action counts. I bet our lawmakers have a ton of stock in Exxon...can we spell "conflict of interest."
ty talktotrees....the # I called was 1-609-737-4411 I used www.odeo.com to record the call,which i called while i was in mexico, check your local laws before you record a call and use www.skype.com to call long distance #'s for free
More people calling to vent their frustration couldn't hurt but big oil is in control. They have their man in the White House and his second as well. And decade after decade of some of the dirtiest business tactics of any industry. They really don't give a sh#t. Push for alternative fuel. Quit driving freaking behemoth SUVs. Take the responsible path on your own.
I hate Big oil as well. But, you just seemed pushy on the phone. Yes she was a bitch and didn't reply in a professional manner. But you also invoke that by saying "Your company is screwing over the America public" She probably gets that 50 times a day. It's not her fault personally, she's just trying to make a living. I think what you did was uncool. You seemed to unload on the only person you could get on the phone, and that person wasn't responsible and probably doesn't know anything.
It is her fault, GUILT by ASSOCIATION. If every employee and stock holder (me included I own exxon stock) stood up and said were tired of fucking over our fellow countrymen they would have to change there ways. "just trying to make a living" boo hoo ...just like the nazis were only following orders when they gased jews....some day you have to answer for your crime.and as far as unloading, there lucky i did not show up personnally with my camera and reallly give them hell.
The gas game is a giant fuckfest. Exxon has to raise prices to lower consumption or we'd run out of gas. The fact that the profit goes into CEO's pockets instead of community projects is part of the capitalist game, it's also part of the failure at University level to instill ethics on those Harvard MBA's. If you don't like the current corporate stlye of taking more than it gives, start yelling at the factories the groom these sociopaths.
hmmmm... thoughts to ponder...I have read many articles that cry about The dominance of liberal faculties at US colleges that point to Harvard being the most liberal, apearantly there hiring liberals, maybe just not letting them instill morals into the immoral..
silentboy- The reason I BELEIVE we would possible runout of GAS. if it was priced cheaper is because oil companies have manipulated the market by stifeling refinery construction in the last 20 years.not that oil is going to run out any time soon....well not in our or our childrens lifetime there are vast untaped oil deposits worldwide..
I DID NOT HARASS..i ASKED ONE QUESTION "WHO WOULD I SPEAK TO REGARDING ~~~~~~~~~ AS FAR IT BEING A ANSWERING SERVICE = GUILTY BY ASSOCIATION...AS FAR MEBEING A JACKASS --I WAS QUITE NICE TO HER,SHE CHOOSE TO CURSE AT ME AND I DID NOT ACT THE SAME WAY TO HER...THANKS FOR YOUR DUMBASS OPINION,NOW HOW BOUT HELPING WITH A SOLUTION
I DID NOT BADGER, I ASKED WHO I COULD TALK TO ABOUT IT..ONE TIME ...AND THAT WAS THE ONLY PHONE AT EXXON THAT A LIVE PERSON WOULD ANSWER (VOICEMAIL DEADENDS) SHE HAD A CHOICE TRANSFER ME TO SOMEONE OR BE A BITCH
Something tells me that this phone coversation is fake.
What we can do? well, once prices are about double this, i think it can acually be a good thing. people will be desperate enough to begin using other technologies. Well, lets hope
what to lower gas prices down buy from exxon or what not, one of there ceo's retired on like 40 billion dollars or something i dont remember but its bullshit
Last year, Raymond made do with "a total compensation package" of just $69.7 million or $190,915 a day, including weekends.
After his haul in 2005, Raymond has decided to retire. It's seems that, for Raymond, not working is even more lucrative than working:
Exxon is giving Lee Raymond one of the most generous retirement packages in history, nearly $400 million info from http://thinkprogress.org/2006/04/14/exxon-ceo-190k-day/
You would think in theory that prices would go down if a company received a tax break, NOT IN THIS INDUSTRY..here is a example http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GKCoUh44l2c 80 billion TAX break,this is only the tip of the iceberg.
I dont think nationalizing them is the answer,in my opinion. Luxury tax maybe, having federal regulators lean on them to make there lifes difficult, definatly fore go the Millions of dollers of tax breaks.
haha liberal... I have never voted for anyone other than a republican, BUSH has everything to do with it. Its called a ENERGY POLICY see www.whitehouse.gov/energy/National-Energy-Policy.pdf
I think you mis-understood I'm a registered republican who is active in his party. Liberal and Neocon are ambiguous terms for people who have no valid points to make. want proof that the BUSH administration has fault research the tax breaks the oil companies have received in the last few years, while paying there high ranking corperate officers 100's of millions..
SCREW OIL COMPANIES!!! They are - for most of them - bunch of thieves run by homosexuals and perverts hungry between their legs! Oil companies managers are all bandits and bunch of hypocrits good at sucking hard donkeys asses!!!
OIL COs, FUCK YOURSELVES, serve oil to your kids and may cyclones and GOdmade disasters SCREW ALL OF THE PROFITS so those Managers will be JOBLESS...AMEN.
goba923 5 months ago
no more oil electric car and hydrogen car coming
hotcuts6064 2 years ago
Here's an idea if you don't like oil companies and CAPITALISM: Don't buy so much gas. Ride a bicycle to work or take public transportation.
Damn. These people act like the oil companies are holding a gun to their head and making them drive SUVs.
m015094 3 years ago
BWAHAHAHAHA! WHAT A BUNCH OF GULLIBLE SHITS!
there's a difference between profit and profit margin, profits get eaten up by things like ooooohhhh, I don't know, operational costs, research and developement, environmental tech (yes, one oil company pays more for enviro tech research than all you jobless hippies combined) and paying people to work, profit MARGIN is what's left over. Avon has a higher profit margin than exxon, dumbasses. High school economics much?
wytkracka 4 years ago
wytkracke Thats the biggest load of shit i have ever heard. justify the ridiculas amount of 100's of millions of dollars these monopolistic oil companies pay there CEo's and board of directors at the expense of jane and john doe public. wonder who butters your bread?. me hippie lol. son i was a delagate at the last (R) convention and im a gulf war vet so kiss the shrapnel in my ass, its a direct result of keeping oil prices high
savesa 4 years ago
where you at now tough guy. Three months ago and the gas prices are where? get back into your cubicle and let us diesel drivers build the nation. Question to you mister/misses isn't diesel cheaper to make? Thought so and most of you oil faggots are destroying our nation. High school econ much? Ya, you make sense, and you call us americans dumbasses. Take your bosses dick out of your ass and shut the fuck up and let the public speak the truth. Your comments mean nothing to us real consumers.
goinforce 3 years ago
BillyBad your an idiot.. war does cost money for both sides but who do you think makes money from weapons and bombs.... dont say it costs money its weak argument as theres always gonna be a party profiting off of it someway (cash, oil or other resource as payment) we need to get rid of all these fanatics and dumb people.... education dosent seem to be working..... :(
3dwardXP 4 years ago
Hey! All you oil bashers! My family has a lot to do with oil so shut up!
0DoYouLoveIt0 4 years ago
Sorry doyouloveme If im nice will you take me yachting?
savesa 4 years ago
lol
kaiserwilli 3 years ago
1) Oil Companies make 10 cents a gallon in crude after Taxes and Transport which makes up there "Billions" via volume (after Subsidies)
2) Refiners are contractors that buy from Oil Companies at that 10 cents Profits and tack on their costs before Selling to Wholesalers
3) Wholesalers set the Market price via demand and supply in addion to their cost as they sell it to Gas Station owners that are either Franchises or Independents...only 5% of Gas Stations are actually own by "Big Oil"
ArchiAngel 4 years ago
The auto industry designs concept cars that can solve the high gas demand problem, but refuse to market them. We need Plug-in hybrid electric vehicles. Loss of revenue can make large companies, even the auto industries; change their "business model". Sure the government can help with legislation to force them to put out new technology, but the true power is in our hands. Stop buying or leasing NEW gasoline powered cars for a year. Tell everyone to wait a year. See my vids.
h2fcell 4 years ago
EXXON MOBIL SHELL BP, thank goodness there are these great oil companies that invest their resources into drilling for more oil and alternative methods of natural energy. thank goodness they lived through the really bad times and are able to amount such grest profitd for future investemnts!!!!
BillyBad 4 years ago
Billy i know you a simple minded oil co. cheerleader but come on we have conquered the middle east ALL OIL IS TRADED IN US DOLLARS. WE WILL SOON BE GOING TO WAR WITH IRAN BECAUSE THEY WILL SOON OPEN A OIL EXCHANGE AND TRADE IN euros Go GET A EDUCATION IN REALITY
savesa 4 years ago
freakin crybabies !! get a damn job then you can afford gasoline jerks !!! save money !! quit buying crack !!!
even if oil were 150 a barrel it is still dirt cheap morons.
BillyBad 4 years ago
Billy are you a fucking retard not only is oil bankrupting our country, its costing the lives of our brave soldiers
savesa 4 years ago
hey dumbfuck, there is no war over oil dumbass.
even at $175 barrel it is cheeper than waging war. if it were over oil we should have conquored all the middleeast by now and let the sand fleas live in squaller!!
dunno bout you but i dont see that happening.
as for this country being bankrupt FAR FROM IT !!!
does this mean canada the uk and eu are too?
since i know you havent looked they owe as much per capita as we d moron!!! lmfao
BillyBad 4 years ago
Actually if the Oil COmpanies had no "Life Support" from Governments via Subsidies and tax Breaks they would be $7-$14 in the red a Gallon instad of 10 cents a Gallon in the Black. Hard thing is that the world uses 80 million Barrels a day and to keep the world Economy Stable the Governments of the World need to spoonfeed any Company willing to waste time pumping Oil instead of doing more profitable things so Exxon,Chevron, and such are actually Welfared Companies and Suckers.
ArchiAngel 4 years ago
That is true, It did sound like he just wanted to argue. There is a better way to get results.
amajetich 4 years ago
Exxon sucks and I banned them back in '94. sOME ADVICE FOR YOU SAVESA: You have a valid argument and we're all pissed off but you are not handling your complaint in a way that will get real attention. You don't an answering service dummy. There's a way to complain and get results and there's a wrong way and you did it the wrong way.
chr1ssy9923 5 years ago
chr1syy how would you suggest making a complaint in a way that will get real attention.
savesa 5 years ago
Want to know how ExxonMobil, the worlds biggest and most powerful company, affects our government, media, and the public?
Search "Out of Balance" on youtube and check out the trailer for an upcomming documentary about ExxonMobil's impact on Climate Change
soha225 5 years ago
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spongeebob 5 years ago
why not sell your car and get your fat ass on a bike, instead of harrassing innocent call center operators. they are just trying to work, like the rest of the rat race.
superjared 5 years ago
haha they used skype
theonlya1112 5 years ago
legion.. My question is, are you being paid to counter my
valid points? the media has already proven (ABC Nails EXXON and Republicans for FAKE Al Gore Video)that Exxon has a covert advertising campaign here on youtube
savesa 5 years ago
I'm an electrical engineering student you paranoid asshole. Go harass more emergency service numbers and ask them why things cost money. I'll help out by calling my Bellsouth emergency service number and ask them why DSL service requires money.
legion2 5 years ago
legion....your missing the point ..companies have a right
to make a tidy profit.but they are price gouging,thats a crime. maybe when you grow up and have to support yourself you will understand and not act like a spoiled child.I will continue my efforts to find collusion among the decedents of standard oil and to have the Sherman act reapplied and have them broken up even more, so as too further the true American Way "fair competition" ..
savesa 5 years ago
exxon sucks
redneckgirl1976 5 years ago
They all suck dear
stihlman37 5 years ago
What kind of asshole calls 911 to ask why healthcare costs are so high? Oh, that's right: you.
legion2 5 years ago
Legion2....Whatkind of idiot makes a comment that makes no sense or is not even close to target.Thats right its you...DID you actually listen to the call??? I did not call 911...I called exxon and the only # that Exxon has a live person answering..is their health and safety line..I did not ask about healthcare I asked about oil and gasoline...Get a clue,,jr
savesa 5 years ago
You called their emergency line, asshole. You would call it in cases like a gas station catches on fire. Maybe not a gas station, what if you were on a transport ship and witnessed an offshore oil rig explosion? Or what about an oil spill? Besides you're wrong about oil companies ripping us off. The US government makes more in taxes than oil companies off every gallon of gas.
legion2 5 years ago
Legion2....listen you little prick. Emergency is 911...and in case of a emergency at sea u contact the coast guard or us navy.. Gas station explodes contact fire department. you do not call exxon and give them a chance to cover-up a mishap. ..
savesa 5 years ago
Legion2.... and as far as oil companies ripping us off, you are just regergitating exxons point of view, in reality they manipulate the futers market so as to hide the real profit margin. They cook there books....and the US does over tax gas...I hope I have educated you...
savesa 5 years ago
You haven't educated me in anything. You have to have proof to do that. Of course, I don't think we should have broken up Standard Oil. We wouldn't have had nearly so many problems in the middle east had we just left standard oil intact.
legion2 5 years ago
Legion...Legion...please explain to the readers why in your opinion Standard should have remained intact? because I agree with it being broken up and the SHERMAN act should be applied to these large oil companies again, I Believe along with the SUPREME court (1910-1911)"Standard raised prices to its monopolistic customers, but lowered them to hurt competitors, often disguising its illegal actions by using bogus supposedly "independent" companies it controlled"
savesa 5 years ago
legion...as far as the middle east and STANDARD it would not have made a difference, Standard refined oil from here in the US and produced mostly kerosene, we really did not start importing oil until the 1920's. from the Middle East. .
savesa 5 years ago
And that kerosine decreased in price every year Standard operated, until the government split them up. You think as we made the transition to gasoline that standard was going to sit on their thumbs? Hell, no. They'd be over in the middle east securing 200 year contracts with the kings over there in 1920. Unfortunately we had to weaken US business and so all the kings went with nationalized businesses.
legion2 5 years ago
legion...nice fairytale dream there....200 yr contracts..lmfao....your a spoiled...child....so you think we should nationalize all large industries and become communists???and allow big biz dictate to us..Iwill not allow thattohappenonmywatch
savesa 5 years ago
No, but if we had standard oil we would have an american walmart of the oil industry today, which would be able to leverage better deals than the us government could ever do through warfare.
legion2 5 years ago
So why does it even exist. Perhaps you should apply for a job as an efficiency expert at Exxon and help them eliminate such a worthless position.
legion2 5 years ago
legion....sounds to me you have a kinship and a knowledge of the inner working of the oil industry,care to elaborate? my knowledge starts as a young serviceman serving in the first Gulf war,while on R&R I was hosted by american families who worked for oil companies in the gulf,which later led to a job in a oil related field...
savesa 5 years ago
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0FDo3ByXIzw
bashokin 5 years ago
WOW!. I just a video of a guy who runs his 94 escort powered by water. thats right friigin water go SEE http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wb8wIqECwGE
savesa 5 years ago
Bzzt. Sorry. He's got a hydrogen burner there. He's just making the hydrogen by electrolyzing water, a 100+ year old technology. And very inefficient. If you have electricity and want to power a car, use batteries. Using it to make hydrogen is MUCH less efficient. Oil companies like hydrogen cars because it keeps them in business.
Or do what I do: ride a bike most of the time. YES, you CAN too do it; paraplegics can ride bikes, you can.
traalfaz 5 years ago
I wish riding a bike was a option,but I need to carry a lot of equipment for work...
savesa 5 years ago
Yeah, that's a bummer. Happily I'm a programmer, so all I need to get to work is myself and my lunch, so I get to ride 20+ miles a day. It's WAY more fun than driving, which I used to like until I discovered cycling; now I hate driving in comparison, even in the rain and snow cycling is still better.
traalfaz 5 years ago
Hey people, if you look in history in and around the 1940's oil and rubber companies bought almost all of the mass transit systems in cities in order to force us to buy cars so we would have to buy oil and rubber products. Not to mention the cars themselves which are now overpriced. In the 60's and 70's you could get a car brand new for less than 2000 dollars. You can't blame that much of an increase in price on inflation either. Do your own research...
Anakin2B 5 years ago
Anakin....excellent points...please provide links to the oil companies buying transit systems.
savesa 5 years ago
hahaha! what a bitch!
glarbinator 5 years ago
america needs to find better transport system. i agree. like in korea, you can live your whole life without needing a car (a bike maybe) you can get around cheap with buses, subways, and trains. taxies are bit expensive though.
RainingBullets 5 years ago
yea i wash i could walk or bike to everywhere
MrRobot 5 years ago
Why can't you? Quadraplegic? Or did you choose a bad place to live?
traalfaz 5 years ago
TODAY CNN----Exxon Mobil makes over $10 billion
No. 1 U.S. oil company earns $1,318 a second -topping forecasts - but comes in just shy of a record.
savesa 5 years ago
I live in the UK and so therefore don't have first hand experience of the current political climate in the states. Having said that the worlds media do take a keen interest in America's current affairs and what I've been lead to believe (perhaps through bias sources) i find quite distressing. I think Liberal America has a responsibility to themselves and the world to make sure an "administration" like the current one can never be in power again.
Lupinflower 5 years ago
oil companies are the demon,but We americans are to blame for not standing up against them and stop them from
taking so much of our $ from our hard earned pockets. It is deplorable we do not have better public transportation , It would help us emensly on the world stage,if we were not so dependent on foreign oil.What forms of mass transit you think would work best?
savesa 5 years ago
The demonization of oil companies is ridiculous. We're the richest country in the world, but we can't fund decent mass transit?
IceyPancho 5 years ago
We can fund decent mass transit, sure, but we can't get selfish consumers to stop driving the cars and actual use it.
jfellrath 5 years ago
Soon oil will be priced out of some americans pockets,and many will be forced to use public transportation. The selfish will always be stubborn....
savesa 5 years ago
Dude! I think you missed one of my earlier postin this video. "Savesa (1 day ago)
""You are paying too much for gas. and true EUROPE pays more than anyone. "" any helpful advice on solutions you have found on your side of the pond would be greatly aprreciated...
savesa 5 years ago
savesa you sound half intelligent, so i'm surprised with your rash comments. What's this all about shorter holidays in the states? Dear god man you could not be further from the truth. And your right "bitching" is not going to help anything and neither is chatting on youtube, or for that matter voting in bush for a second term. But what will is invading the second biggest oil producing nation in the world. Well done America your leader (dick Chaney) is actually the anti- Christ.
Lupinflower 5 years ago
BUSH was a mistake...He has broken laws,he should be impeached. and yes I take part of that blame my vote was cast for the moron.but then Dick would have the helm, not good. 2 1/2 years more I hope we make it that long.....
savesa 5 years ago
Does no one in the UK have the integrity to take responsiblity for their country's own actions?
Well done, UK, you're one of the rudest cultures on the planet.
jplumbtree 5 years ago
I loved this! The Exxon lady shoved it back in his face.Three cheers for Exxon!
label1877 5 years ago
label1877 ...Three cheers for EXXON???? Dude is that 3 cheers for price Gouging,price fixing,short suppling ???????? Do you like getting bent over at the pump?
savesa 5 years ago
Sir,you are wrong.Oil profits are way up but,a recent non-partisian government commision just found NO EVIDENCE of price gouging.If you must bitch,demand a tax break on gasoline because tax collections are WAY UP on gasoline because of the higher prices.
label1877 5 years ago
Are we to believe a government investigation, ?? with your argument makes me think your bread is buttered by the OIL industry...or you have a butt load of oil stock....how can u defend these robber barons, would you have defended standard oil too??
savesa 5 years ago
label1877....and if you are refering to the FTC report after Katrina "The Federal Trade Commission also determined in a longer-range finding that during the past 20 years refiners didn't seek to manipulate prices by cutting the number of operating refineries or limiting increases in capacity. " the only reason price gouging charges could not be brought was because collusion could not beproven.....but every american knows we are being bent over at the pump,not just by the tax.
savesa 5 years ago
label.....a Government Accountability Office study of eight mergers in the 1990s that found a majority of those corporate moves led to increases in the wholesale gas price of 1 to 7 cents per gallon quote from senator feinstein
savesa 5 years ago
i agree about the bitching, but then, he didn't deserve the "i don't give a shit" by the serverice. atleast the lady could be more POLITE about it. american manners these days. so bad.
RainingBullets 5 years ago
Skype rocks...
Exxon doesn't.
BlackJackBob 5 years ago
You just called that woman a Nazi.. and you quoted "Clerks"...
...Did you just associate us paying more for oil based products to the deaths of 6 million jewish people?...
You also said something about "American egos(Myself included) won't allow us to give'em up".. Does that mean you have an SUV?. I don't think you've achieved anything here. Except maybe just belittling the Holocaust to price gouging.
Felacio 5 years ago
Felacio....I did not call HER a nazi.it was a analogy,a over dramtic one at that. I apolagize. I did not meanto belittle the jews who lost their life's in the holocoust and all other person the nazi's persecuted .what line from clerks did i quote? I do respect Kevin Smith as a filmmaker and would give him credit if i did inadvertently channeled "jay"
savesa 5 years ago
Felacio... I did drive a big dually 4X4 crew cab for many years, half job related/half ego (my tuck bigger than yours BS) I nowdrive a deisal, hopefully I can soon afford a Vegetable fuel kit like from http://www.greasecar.com ..wheather I acheive anything or not is not the point, I can only try....
savesa 5 years ago
From clerks the Chewlies gum rep. says "You know who else was only doing there jobs?.. the NAZIS" when Dante says he's just doing his job.
I think it's great your going to convert your Diesel, thats a vastly great step in the right direction. I personally just didn't agree with your method with this video is all. You seem on the level, and I respect the fact that you didn't resort to flaming. :)
Felacio 5 years ago
That is so hilarious. That lady was damn rude!
jessedudezx 5 years ago
LOL.
teletub 5 years ago
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savesa 5 years ago
ha you guys like to bitch about oil prices i live in the uk and we have to pay about a pound a liter which is about a dollar 85 in america so we are paying about 5 to 6 times as much as you guys but we dont bitch about it u guys get it lucky over there having everything so cheap all the time but all u can do is still whine about it mind u i would still choose england over america anyday
keironuk 5 years ago
YOUR bitching about me bitching does not helpfind a solution....We pay less for gas because we are taxed less on it. UK taxes higher because they as a giverment have less funding sources. we pay less on consumer goods because we buy more (%). Americans on average work harder and longer hours then there uk counter parts, we have much less "holiday time", you have more holiday because earlier uk generations BITCHED. Now instead of bitching about my bitching help with a solution.
savesa 5 years ago
how does that work? most people in this country work for 40 hours a week and for less pay then u and we only get 3 weeks holiday a year and the reason we pay so much tax here is coz we have one of the best hospitals and police and stuff here unlike there which u get to carry guns around and dont give me crap about u work harder lol it shows your one of the lazyist countrys in the world i for one work 12 hours a day 5 days a week and i got a small house most houses here are small unlike there
keironuk 5 years ago
Keiron its great your such a big cheerleader for the UK, people should be proud of their country.. We are all in the same boat, paying way to much for oil...Now as far as finding solutions can you tell us about the public transportation in the UK, I hear its one of the best in the world.
savesa 5 years ago
lol buddy think about the currency
US money is worth way more than UK
1.00 GBP = 1.85 USD
so really it's us paying way more.. fucking idiot
azndude42 5 years ago
ha you guys are so lucky
keironuk 5 years ago
ty for the comment...Gliiidter..You are paying too much for gas. and true EUROPE pays more than anyone. Here's how i understand this works we all pay about the same amount for gas the reason you and europe pays more is because you folks are taxed more,where TEXAS is about 50cents per gallon,In Europe, fuel tax can amount to more than 75% of the price at the pump. Comparatively, gas taxes in Canada represent approximately 40% of the price...GAS before taxes is over priced...
savesa 5 years ago
Ok, I live in eastern Canada, and the price right now is 1.19$ a Leter. I looked up a gallon, and its 3.785 L a gallon. so, that means im paying 4.542$ a gallon here. Beat that? hahah. I hear its much worse in places like Britain, where prices are as high as 2.40$ a Leter, or 9.084$ a gallon. quite impressive
Gliiidter 5 years ago
Great JOB!!! I love it that you took the time to do this. When are the people in this country going to stand up to the corruption. Every little bit of action counts. I bet our lawmakers have a ton of stock in Exxon...can we spell "conflict of interest."
talk2trees 5 years ago
ty talktotrees....the # I called was 1-609-737-4411 I used www.odeo.com to record the call,which i called while i was in mexico, check your local laws before you record a call and use www.skype.com to call long distance #'s for free
savesa 5 years ago
More people calling to vent their frustration couldn't hurt but big oil is in control. They have their man in the White House and his second as well. And decade after decade of some of the dirtiest business tactics of any industry. They really don't give a sh#t. Push for alternative fuel. Quit driving freaking behemoth SUVs. Take the responsible path on your own.
koalman 5 years ago
ty....koalman...more people should call and record there call and upload it as a response I wouldluv that.
As far SUV's are concerned I dont think americas ego(mine included) will allow us to give'em up..but there are alternatives.. like www.greasecar.com
savesa 5 years ago
I hate Big oil as well. But, you just seemed pushy on the phone. Yes she was a bitch and didn't reply in a professional manner. But you also invoke that by saying "Your company is screwing over the America public" She probably gets that 50 times a day. It's not her fault personally, she's just trying to make a living. I think what you did was uncool. You seemed to unload on the only person you could get on the phone, and that person wasn't responsible and probably doesn't know anything.
Felacio 5 years ago
It is her fault, GUILT by ASSOCIATION. If every employee and stock holder (me included I own exxon stock) stood up and said were tired of fucking over our fellow countrymen they would have to change there ways. "just trying to make a living" boo hoo ...just like the nazis were only following orders when they gased jews....some day you have to answer for your crime.and as far as unloading, there lucky i did not show up personnally with my camera and reallly give them hell.
savesa 5 years ago
Exxon can just lick balls.
drzgameboy123 5 years ago
The gas game is a giant fuckfest. Exxon has to raise prices to lower consumption or we'd run out of gas. The fact that the profit goes into CEO's pockets instead of community projects is part of the capitalist game, it's also part of the failure at University level to instill ethics on those Harvard MBA's. If you don't like the current corporate stlye of taking more than it gives, start yelling at the factories the groom these sociopaths.
SilentBoy22 5 years ago
hmmmm... thoughts to ponder...I have read many articles that cry about The dominance of liberal faculties at US colleges that point to Harvard being the most liberal, apearantly there hiring liberals, maybe just not letting them instill morals into the immoral..
savesa 5 years ago
silentboy- The reason I BELEIVE we would possible runout of GAS. if it was priced cheaper is because oil companies have manipulated the market by stifeling refinery construction in the last 20 years.not that oil is going to run out any time soon....well not in our or our childrens lifetime there are vast untaped oil deposits worldwide..
savesa 5 years ago
What a jackass...yer harassing the answering service??
sselfless 5 years ago
I DID NOT HARASS..i ASKED ONE QUESTION "WHO WOULD I SPEAK TO REGARDING ~~~~~~~~~ AS FAR IT BEING A ANSWERING SERVICE = GUILTY BY ASSOCIATION...AS FAR MEBEING A JACKASS --I WAS QUITE NICE TO HER,SHE CHOOSE TO CURSE AT ME AND I DID NOT ACT THE SAME WAY TO HER...THANKS FOR YOUR DUMBASS OPINION,NOW HOW BOUT HELPING WITH A SOLUTION
savesa 5 years ago
2.89?? That's cheap! I pay 3.35... grrr.....
at least the high prices enrage people enough to really spark interest in alternative fuels.
screamifyoulikeit 5 years ago
Damn $3.35 sounds like calif...
as far as alternative fuels I hear Archer Daniels Midland has been investing heavily (with some goverment funding added) in ethanol & corn fuels..
savesa 5 years ago
Not really sure what was accomplished by calling the wrong department at Exxon and badgering the receptionist there.. but, whatever.
Felacio 5 years ago
I DID NOT BADGER, I ASKED WHO I COULD TALK TO ABOUT IT..ONE TIME ...AND THAT WAS THE ONLY PHONE AT EXXON THAT A LIVE PERSON WOULD ANSWER (VOICEMAIL DEADENDS) SHE HAD A CHOICE TRANSFER ME TO SOMEONE OR BE A BITCH
savesa 5 years ago
Something tells me that this phone coversation is fake.
What we can do? well, once prices are about double this, i think it can acually be a good thing. people will be desperate enough to begin using other technologies. Well, lets hope
Gliiidter 5 years ago
ITS A REAL PHONE CALL...
savesa 5 years ago
what to lower gas prices down buy from exxon or what not, one of there ceo's retired on like 40 billion dollars or something i dont remember but its bullshit
joshbreaksk8IN 5 years ago
Exxon CEO Lee Raymond
Last year, Raymond made do with "a total compensation package" of just $69.7 million or $190,915 a day, including weekends.
After his haul in 2005, Raymond has decided to retire. It's seems that, for Raymond, not working is even more lucrative than working:
Exxon is giving Lee Raymond one of the most generous retirement packages in history, nearly $400 million info from http://thinkprogress.org/2006/04/14/exxon-ceo-190k-day/
savesa 5 years ago
i dont care about tax breaks the oil companies may have recieved... wouldn't that make them LOWER the price?
ODannyBoi 5 years ago
You would think in theory that prices would go down if a company received a tax break, NOT IN THIS INDUSTRY..here is a example http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GKCoUh44l2c 80 billion TAX break,this is only the tip of the iceberg.
savesa 5 years ago
that was the funniest thing i heard all day long lol
lordunderdog 5 years ago
thank you
savesa 5 years ago
Youtubers WHAT do YOU THINK ? What can be done to lower gasoline prices here in the USA? Drill in alaska? more drilling off the west coast, Calif..?
Goverment invest heavely in alternative fuel sources?
savesa 5 years ago
nationlise it sherwood? you must be a communist, and if there's one thing americans hate more than high oil prices, its communists.
HenvY 5 years ago
I dont think nationalizing them is the answer,in my opinion. Luxury tax maybe, having federal regulators lean on them to make there lifes difficult, definatly fore go the Millions of dollers of tax breaks.
savesa 5 years ago
what does Bush have to do with it? Fucking liberals.
ODannyBoi 5 years ago
haha liberal... I have never voted for anyone other than a republican, BUSH has everything to do with it. Its called a ENERGY POLICY see www.whitehouse.gov/energy/National-Energy-Policy.pdf
savesa 5 years ago
And you never voted Republican. that proves nothing.
watchmanthomas 5 years ago
I think you mis-understood I'm a registered republican who is active in his party. Liberal and Neocon are ambiguous terms for people who have no valid points to make. want proof that the BUSH administration has fault research the tax breaks the oil companies have received in the last few years, while paying there high ranking corperate officers 100's of millions..
savesa 5 years ago
i agree,..but we need to drive and eat,...
jimmyq888 5 years ago
what about french fry oil instead of gas ??
http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&hs=e5u&safe=off&client=firefox-a&rls=org.mozilla:en-US:official&sa=X&oi=spell&resnum=0&ct=result&cd=1&q=vegetable+oil+car&spell=1
savesa 5 years ago
I say its time to nationalize them all
sherwood22222 5 years ago
Oil companys suck and should have their prices regulated or something...I'm all up for having an alternative feul source! FUCK EXXON!
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savesa 5 years ago