LOL!
Up to $10,000?
Reminds of Rockefeller handing out dimes.
So obviously the point is that Exxon Mobil are a bunch of cheap bastards.
I bet there are children writing contests that pay better.
Thanks gbaikie, needed that one!
America is losing it's manufacturing capacity daily. We're going from a industrial nation to a service based nation - and there are no bucks in that. Global warming hype is just another way of increasing the working poor in America. Brainwash their kids early so that they are HAPPY when they earn $12,765 a year in their sales/management/service job in 2020 -and even then the corporations will feel they are paying too much - so long as they believe their nation's sacrifice - and their own - will somehow make a difference in global temperatures.
And the millions of illegals will be granted some sort of "legality" so they can steal your kids job and be paid half as much. So the money that would pay your kids will instead go to illegals, Mexico and the various nations that will actually produce US companies' products and will never sign Kyoto or anything like it.
Nothing is more frustrating than watching the ignorant lemmings march into the sea.
Paranoid neurotics, wasted on their favorite legal or illegal drug as an escape mechanism, will not be the ones I tend to trust with the US' economic future.