RE: Are Big Oil Conspiracies Really Off Base?

2006-02-02 Thread John Steck
It's the time traveling Nazis with the beam weapons... haven't you been following along? ;^) -j -Original Message-From: RC Macaulay [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, February 01, 2006 7:38 PMTo: vortex-l@eskimo.comSubject: Re: Are Big Oil Conspiracies Really Off Base

RE: Are Big Oil Conspiracies Really Off-Base?

2006-02-02 Thread Zell, Chris
Title: Message From: John Coviello [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, February 01, 2006 6:19 PMTo: vortex-l@eskimo.comSubject: Re: Are Big Oil Conspiracies Really Off-Base? The way I see it, our dependence on oil is the product of one of the most far flung social engineering

RE: Are Big Oil Conspiracies Really Off-Base?

2006-02-01 Thread John Steck
Title: Message $36.13 billiontotal profitfor 2005, highest of all time second highest of all time?Exxon again with$25.3 billion in 2004. Good for them, hopefully this unabashedgreed pushes the complacent out of their easy chairs and gives viable alternative sources a much needed

RE: Are Big Oil Conspiracies Really Off-Base?

2006-02-01 Thread Zell, Chris
Title: Message Are Big-Oil Conspiracies off base? YES! If any of you really think that oil companies are outrageously profitable, YOU ARE FREE TO BUY THEIR STOCK and share in the profits accordingly. I don't, because I find them too risky. Since 1977, government tax revenues on oil have

RE: Are Big Oil Conspiracies Really Off-Base?

2006-02-01 Thread Jed Rothwell
John Steck wrote: $36.13 billion total profit for 2005, highest of all time second highest of all time? Exxon again with $25.3 billion in 2004. Kenneth Deffeyes pointed out that part of the reason oil companies are making record profits is because they are not investing in new

Re: Are Big Oil Conspiracies Really Off-Base?

2006-02-01 Thread John Coviello
- Original Message - From: Jed Rothwell [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: vortex-L@eskimo.com Sent: Wednesday, February 01, 2006 4:08 PM Subject: RE: Are Big Oil Conspiracies Really Off-Base? John Steck wrote: $36.13 billion total profit for 2005, highest of all time second highest of all

Re: Are Big Oil Conspiracies Really Off-Base?

2006-02-01 Thread John Coviello
see a return on investment for a product that will price itself out of the market within a decade or two. From: Zell, Chris To: vortex-l@eskimo.com Sent: Wednesday, February 01, 2006 4:32 PM Subject: RE: Are Big Oil Conspiracies Really Off-Base? Are Big-Oil

Re: Are Big Oil Conspiracies Really Off Base?

2006-02-01 Thread RC Macaulay
Hi Vorts, Big oil came in just over the average return ( 6. 5%) on gross sales at near 8.5 % If youn want to look at figures .. look at returns on Banking at 18 %. Not to worry, Paul Voelker, ex Fed chairman recently made a comment that there was a 75% chance for a " major correction" in