How Do You Spend $375 Million A Day? Ask The Oil Industry

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desmogblog.com 29 Jul '12, 8pm

How Do You Spend $375 Million A Day? Ask The Oil Industry

That certainly warrants repeating: Exxon and Shell made a combined $160,000 every minute for the last quarter, and still helped themselves to a piece of the $2.4 billion in federal tax breaks and subsidies that flow to the top five oil companies (the grand total for all members of the industry is estimated to be between $4 and $7 billion a year .) At their current rate of pay by the minute, they are on track to beat their record from last year when the top five oil companies combined earned a total of $261,000 every minute , for a grand total of $375 million a day . So the ultimate question is how do they spend all that money? The simplest answer is that they spend most of it in ways that only makes them wealthier. Again from

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How Do You Spend $375 Million A Day? Ask The Oil Industry

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