Comments on: The Exxon key to profitability http://www.rvtradedigest.com/interactive/2007/02/01/the-exxon-key-to-profitability/ Welcome to RV Weekly where the editor of RV Trade Digest will be updating you on the latest news, trends, and products important to the RV industry. Wed, 07 Jan 2009 05:10:45 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.3.3 By: Bob Zagami http://www.rvtradedigest.com/interactive/2007/02/01/the-exxon-key-to-profitability/#comment-646 Bob Zagami Sat, 03 Feb 2007 13:49:05 +0000 http://www.rvtradedigest.com/interactive/2007/02/01/the-exxon-key-to-profitability/#comment-646 Now isn't that a wonderful incentive for corporate America to make a lot of money so that Hillary can decide how to spend it. Her healthcare fiasco didn't work so now she's going to try to run the finances of companies that drive our economic engine, provide jobs for our citizens, and reinvest this money in growing their business. What a sorry excuse for a presidential candidate. Now isn’t that a wonderful incentive for corporate America to make a lot of money so that Hillary can decide how to spend it. Her healthcare fiasco didn’t work so now she’s going to try to run the finances of companies that drive our economic engine, provide jobs for our citizens, and reinvest this money in growing their business. What a sorry excuse for a presidential candidate.

]]> By: ggerber http://www.rvtradedigest.com/interactive/2007/02/01/the-exxon-key-to-profitability/#comment-627 ggerber Fri, 02 Feb 2007 17:58:51 +0000 http://www.rvtradedigest.com/interactive/2007/02/01/the-exxon-key-to-profitability/#comment-627 Here's the Democratic response to corporate profitability: Hillary tells DNC Winter meeting: 'I want to take those profits, and I want to put them into a strategic energy fund' What should American corporations do now? Spend their profits so the government doesn't confiscate it or keep their profits to improve the fortunes of millions of stockholders? Here’s the Democratic response to corporate profitability:

Hillary tells DNC Winter meeting: ‘I want to take those profits, and I want to put them into a strategic energy fund’

What should American corporations do now? Spend their profits so the government doesn’t confiscate it or keep their profits to improve the fortunes of millions of stockholders?

]]> By: rick http://www.rvtradedigest.com/interactive/2007/02/01/the-exxon-key-to-profitability/#comment-618 rick Thu, 01 Feb 2007 20:08:11 +0000 http://www.rvtradedigest.com/interactive/2007/02/01/the-exxon-key-to-profitability/#comment-618 It is not the .9cents on every gallon that is the marketing genius that makes the oil companies these record profits. It is the fact that when the hurricanes hit the gulf coast and the oil companies started charging $3-4/gal, it became the new normal in the eyes of the public. So when they dropped the prices by $.50/gal, the public became relieved that fuel prices had dropped significantly and life was all good again, when in fact the prices were still well above what the pre-hurricane prices were, but the public is no longer complaining beacuse it is still cheaper than when it was at it's highest. The US has nothing to complain about though. Here in Canada, the fuel prices can fluctuate as much as $.15/litre (that's $.57/gallon) overnight, and does very regularly. Two days ago gasoline was at its lowest in over a year when it fell to $.72/litre. The very next morning the price had jumped back up to $.87/litre. That kind of variation in price happens on a day to day basis, and it is at the point that we now just stand idly by and watch it happen, knowing that the oil companies have us in the palm of their hands. It is not the .9cents on every gallon that is the marketing genius that makes the oil companies these record profits. It is the fact that when the hurricanes hit the gulf coast and the oil companies started charging $3-4/gal, it became the new normal in the eyes of the public. So when they dropped the prices by $.50/gal, the public became relieved that fuel prices had dropped significantly and life was all good again, when in fact the prices were still well above what the pre-hurricane prices were, but the public is no longer complaining beacuse it is still cheaper than when it was at it’s highest.
The US has nothing to complain about though. Here in Canada, the fuel prices can fluctuate as much as $.15/litre (that’s $.57/gallon) overnight, and does very regularly. Two days ago gasoline was at its lowest in over a year when it fell to $.72/litre. The very next morning the price had jumped back up to $.87/litre. That kind of variation in price happens on a day to day basis, and it is at the point that we now just stand idly by and watch it happen, knowing that the oil companies have us in the palm of their hands.

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