a profit of
energy companies earned 9.76 cents of profit from each dollar of sales during the third quarter, little more than half of the 18.37 cents earned per dollar in the financial sector.
shame on them oil companies for doing [link|http://z.iwethey.org/forums/render/content/show?contentid=232318|worse than] Citigroup, Microsoft, Coca Cola, Proctor & Gamble and General Electric. This whole farce sounds a lot like of "these income tax breaks don't help the poor" while ignoring that no tax break could ever help the poor as they don't pay them to begin with.