Topic: oil corporations

Stat of the Day

Big Oil Companies Made $200,000 Every Minute in the First Quarter

Reuters

Big Five oil companies report $36 billion in profits in first quarter--do the math

By Eli Rosenberg

May 13, 2011

Chart of the Day

High Gas Prices Are Mostly Hurting You, Not Oil Companies

As the fight gears up to end subsidies to the oil industry, a look at the price-profit link

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