Exxon Mobil made $40.6B in profit in 2007. That was a record annual profit for a U.S. company. The number is so astronomically high that it's almost impossible to grasp. Here's another, simpler way of looking at it. Exxon made $1300 a second in 2007. So in the 10 seconds or so it took to read this blog, Exxon made about 13 thousand dollars.
For more on this story, check out my segment on BNN by copying and pasting the following link.
http://broadband.bnn.ca/bnn/?id=2238&vid=29359
