12680175, You are exaggarating the profitability of the oil industry Posted by PimpTrickGangstaClik, Thu Dec-18-14 08:13 PM
Yes their raw profits are high (on the order of 10s of billions of dollars for the big oil producers). But their costs are extremely high as well. It costs a lot of money to get that stuff out of the ground. As a result, the profit margins for oil producers are comparable to most other industries in the economy. When oil prices we high, profit margins were like 8-12%. Compare that to tech companies (Google, Apple, Microsoft, etc.) if you think they are profiting too much.
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