the Voice of
The Communist League of Revolutionary Workers–Internationalist
“The emancipation of the working class will only be achieved by the working class itself.”
— Karl Marx
the Voice of
The Communist League of Revolutionary Workers–Internationalist
“The emancipation of the working class will only be achieved by the working class itself.”
— Karl Marx
Feb 19, 2001
The profits are in for the big four oil companies for the last three months of 2000. BP Amoco had the biggest haul at 4.1 billion dollars, that is, $4,100,000,000! Then there was Exxon-Mobil with 5.2 billion dollars, followed by Chevron with 1.5 billion dollars and finally Texaco with 845 million dollars. Profits were double what they were a year ago.
This spectacular increase in profits is not surprising since the price of gas for our cars rose tremendously in many cities over the last year. The price of natural gas for heating which is produced by these monopolies also doubled in the last year.
Don’t let them tell us prices went up because supplies were scarce. Prices went up because these super-rich monopolies which control the markets wanted still higher profits.