claim: last year, "exxon pocketed nearly $4.7 million every hour."
author: barack obama
evidence_1: sep 7, 2012 ... last year, the three biggest u.s. oil companies took home more than $80 billion in profit. exxon pocketed nearly $4.7 million every hour.” in addition, obama's automotive fuel standards, further discussed below, will dramatically reduce demand for all oil – domestic or imported – in the united states in the ...
evidence_2: apr 19, 2012 ... ... the u.s. oil majors have been generating huge profits. as u.s. president barack obama pointed out in a recent speech urging congress to repeal tax breaks for the oil industry, “the three biggest u.s. oil companies took home more than $80 billion in profits. exxon pocketed nearly $4.7 million every hour.
evidence_3: may 4, 2012 ... we look at one of the largest and most powerful corporations in the world: exxonmobil. last week, the corporate giant reported it earned $9.5 billion in profits in the first three months of this year — or almost $104 million per day. we speak with pulitzer prize-winning reporter steve coll, who pulls back the ...
evidence_4: steve benen: president obama spoke from the white house's south lawn this morning, urging congress to end the $4 billion in tax subsidies oil and natural gas companies receive from the government every year. obama noted that “exxon pocketed nearly $4.7 million every hour” last year, and simply doesn't need ...
evidence_5: jun 26, 2007 ... peter rose, a seattle-based corporate chief executive offficer, took home $4.7 million last year. he thinks that's quite enough. “there's only so much crap you can ... goolsbee calculates that ellison would have to spend over “$183,000 an hour on things that can't be resold, like parties or meals, just to avoid ...