Despite Record Profits, Exxon Mobil Refuses To Pay Up

Could the article be anymore shallow, innane and agenda driven? Of course, Exxon makes a profit. It’s what corporations do to the benefit of their shareholders. Is EXXON supposed to be judged in a separate economic universe from Microsoft’s or Dell’s profits just because its an oil company?
It’s not like EXXON hasn’t paid $3.5 billion. Not exactly chump change. 17 years after the fact and these whiners haven’t moved on to new sources of livelihoods? The fishing industry isn’t exactly in great shape on the Atlantic seaboard either. Ask the unemployed fishermen in Newfoundland and Nova Scotia.
It would have been nice if this article presented a balance of both sides of the issues involved in this settlement.

It may not help much, but I will boycott Exxon. I don’t want to add to their profits if they care so little for our world.

Whatever happened to accountability? I guess if you are big enough and have a product that is indispenable to the world, you can set your own rules and terms. What a lesson in ethics and justice!
Yes, Exxon as a corporation has a right to make a profit, but it might prove very interesting to examine the methods they have chosen to pursue that magical bottom line. Where much is given, much is expected…they should have to present an accounting to SOMEONE…the least it could do would be to exonerate them…the worst, to convict. What do they have to lose?

I find it disturbing some readers would say Exxon has paid enough. Guess what, Microsoft and Dell haven’t dumped 10,000,000 gallons of oil in a marine rich environment. Exxon keeps fighting to pay extra because incurring horrendous legal expenses doesn’t phase them….They earned 8.5 billion dollars last quarter.

I have been boycotting Exxon for years and will continue to do so. I think it’s horrendous that they haven’t payed yet! Get with it and do your duty!!!

It is unfortunate that many of these corporate CEO’s were taught right from wrong when they were children and when they start climbing the rungs of the corporate ladder they lose sight of what is right and wrong. I guess the view from the top is different from the average joe’s that is on the bottom.

exxonmobil has paid a dear price over maybe 30 years to establish its company. The blood, sweat, tears, pain, agony, opposition, adversity, time, frustration, work, sorrow and other cost and Putting employees on payroll that are not worth the pay, double taxation of the IRS, unemployment insurance, Employing american people, contingency costs, foundations for college education and other donation incentives, then the Government wants to charge 4 billion dollars on working individuals who built their own empire from initial pursuits, as well as uninformed people who don’t really realize that exxonmobil has propably worked for a great deal for what it has majority accquired here in the U.S.A I really wish that people would really reconsider and realize from the head of exxonmobil and his perspective and the empire that they have paid the price for and built. FYI – I have an actual employment pending claim with exxonmobil and have had to pay a price just to be considered but now after hearing these things that exxonmobil is facing and its unfairnesses I would dissolute from any other costs to its company and pursue other employment.

What most irritates me about this is the reaction of “penny”…as to why the “whiners” haven’t moved on to other forms of employment. Gee Sherlock, maybe it has to do with the fact that the Valdez sound is right smack in the middle of one the richest fisheries in North America.
Someone is not a “whiner” when they have their livelihood destroyed by the criminal negligence of a corporation that by all accounts has the resources to both prevent and remedy a catastrpohe like the Valdez spill.
I just don’t get this “cult of personality” surrounding Big Business. Hurray, they make lots of money, so let’s worship them and never question any of their ethics or tactics! Any business, large or small, has an obligation to the community it operates within. Anyone who doesn’t believe that is a sociopath.
Unfortunately nowadays nearly everyone thinks the end justifies the means, so once you get rich you are above the law and the acolytes of the Free Market Church of Wealth will defend your every move.
If you believe in a just God you might want to rethink your fanatical devotion to the almighty dollar folks.

I don’t understand people.We let the oil companys and the goverment do what they want,,then Bitch when I causes us discomfort. Oil companys don’t pay royalties to any one but the politicans that seem to always have their hand out. but their bellys and their gas tanks are full. And we bitch>>
there is only two choices get rid of the rich politicans , Or join them and steal every thing you can , for tommorrow is going to be worse

It’s sad when a company worth billions of dollars is selfish as they are. The oil spill was their fault, not society or inhabits living in those depths. It is Exxon’s responsibility to clean the mess and pay those fines handed to them.
Because it cost them more money to clean up doesn’t mean they should escape punishment of the fine of the spill. Those are clearly two separate issues.
Clean-up vs. Fines for spill = 2 accountability for one company that has the money to spend for their mistake, again not society or inhabits.
Someone in this organization is royally confused and feels they can over-veto a court decisions.
Or does Exxon, since are with wealth and power feel they can dominate, and over rule the court decisions, hand down their own term of negation when it is the principle of our courts to make this resolution, not the company at fault.
If our government turns their backs and eyes in this situation and goes along with Exxon, proves they too have a selfish agenda ahead.
God Bless

I’m sick of liberals continuing to blame the Republicans for everything under the sun, including this. If I recall, President Clinton was in office from 1992-2000 and didn’t do anything to make Exxon pay up either. So does that make the Clintons Exxon servent as well? Or only Republicans are evil because they want companies to do well?
In addition, when have we become a communist society? Brian Ross’ employer, ABC/Disney, has to turn a profit was well. Or are journalist working for free, and ABC/Disney doesn’t care about making money? If your company didn’t make money, would you have a job?
I do think Exxon does need to fork over the penalties they were imposed. If you want to blame Bush, you have to blame Clinton as well for letting Exxon off the hook.

Yes, this spill was a horrible environmental tragedy. It was not the first, and definently not the last to come about because of oil. Our heedless burning of oil is as we speak drastically changing our planet for the worse through global warming.
This said, I dont think that the company, Exxon, as a whole can be put entirely to blame for this accident. It was the fault of the boat captain. The captain was tired, and while he was sleeping, his co-captain was put in charge, who had not been fully trained in navigating the alascan coast at that particular area. It is he and the captain who is to blame, the captain for putting him in charge in the first place, and the co-captain for not saying that he was not sufficiently trained.

I’d also like to add that while the ship’s captain may be directly to blame, it was Exxon who decided to put these enormous ships up in a ecologically pristine area knowing full well the risks of doing so.
Regardless of whether or not the locals now have jobs, moving profits away from Exxon and giving it to the local guy who has suffered will end up creating more jobs than giving it to some new york investment fund company. “Investors” don’t know the meaning of work. They never produce a single tangible product and can’t predict left from right. It is true, you can throw darts at the stock listing in the business section and get a higher return than the average stock market analyst. They are only good for showing you how to hedge your risk which is extremely simple principle to begin with. This group makes more money than anyone else by simply leaching off of all the products made out there hoping that they consume any increase in value before any low to middle-upper class family gets it. So I am sorry if you take less this year because you helped fund destruction. Too bad.

An accident is just an accident. What is the point of making someone pay for something that has happened?. You pay for something you receive, not for something that has heppened.

how we can legally sue a customer, if they refuse to take the items after cashier rung up?