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Politics : Formerly About Advanced Micro Devices

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To: TimF who wrote (299992)8/14/2006 9:56:44 PM
From: combjelly  Read Replies (1) of 1574187
 
"Interestingly they do amount to more than the oil industries post tax profits."

I haven't argued with that. Refining isn't a high margin business. It has an enormous barrier of entry in the cost of the refineries, which is the reason we haven't had any new ones built n decades.
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