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I'm not defending these other countries nor am I a tree-hugger but if they are sticking it to us so bad then how come ExxonMobil, an American company, posts record profits every year? In 2007 they posted a new annual record of 40.61 billion dollars, that's nearly 1,300 dollars a second. I repeat, 1,300 a second. 
There are a lot of companies that make much higher profits on their investment. Exxon is a huge corporation so of course their total profits are huge. When they lose money, as they have done with a lot less fanfare, their loses are huge too. But, since the US based oil companies are publicly traded corporations the recipients of those profits are people who own stock and mutual funds that invest in them.
We all like to think of ourselves as rugged individualists. But when push comes to shove most of us are sheep who do what we are told. Worst of all, a lot of us become unpaid agents of whoever is controlling the agenda by enforcing the current dogma on the few rugged individualists who actually exist.
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