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To: American Spirit who wrote (78952)8/15/2006 6:45:56 PM
From: TimFRead Replies (1) | Respond to of 81568
 
Exxon has become the biggest corp in the history of earth

Exxon Mobil is not the largest oil company. Its only the largest publicly traded oil company. In any case there is nothing wrong with being large, its no where near a monopoly, it controls a smaller percentage of the world's oil than Exxon used to by itself decades ago.

with the most obscene profits ever recorded

What objective criteria would you use to determine that profits are "obscene"?