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I like the statement of “People we represent are hurting, the companies you represent are profiting” from Senator Leahy. Hopefully we could do something like Hugo.

Patrick Leahy, D-Vt., told the executives there’s “a disconnect” between normal supply and demand and the skyrocketing price of oil — surpassing $130 a barrel even as the oil leaders testified — that the industry has yet to explain.

J. Stephen Simon, executive vice president of Exxon Mobil Corp., said profits have been huge “in absolute terms” but must be viewed in the context of the massive scale of the industry.” He also said high earnings are needed “in the current up cycle” to pay for investments in the long term when profits will be down.

“‘Current up cycle,’ that’s a nice term,” replied Leahy with sarcasm, “when people can’t afford to go to work” because gasoline is costing close to $4 a gallon.

He asked Simon what his total compensation was at Exxon, a company that made $40 billion last year. Simon replied it was $12.5 million annually.

Two other executives, John Lowe, executive vice president of ConocoPhillips Co., said he didn’t recall his total compensations as did Peter Robertson, vice chairman of Chevron Corp. John Hofmeister, president of Shell Oil Co., said his was “about $2.2 million” but was not among the top five salaries at his company’s international parent. Robert Malone, chairman of BP America Inc., put his compensation at “in excess of $2 million.”

Sen. Arlen Specter, R-Pa., said Exxon’s annual profits increased from $11.5 billion to $40.6 billion in the past five years and there was no explanation for “why profits have gone up so high when the consumer is suffering so much.”

The five companies earned $36 billion in the first quarter of this year.

The executives, appearing under oath before the Senate Judiciary Committee, said they know high prices are hurting people, but they said the cause is not company profits but global supply and demand. And they sought to use their appearance before Congress to argue against new taxes on their industry

“I urge you to resist these punitive policies,” said Hofmeister.

Senate Democrats recently announced an energy package that would tax “windfall” profits of the five companies. That might have public appeal, Lowe told the senators, but oil companies should not be viewed as “a scapegoat” for high prices.

That was not what many senators wanted to hear.

You have “just a litany of complaints that you’re all just hapless victims of a system,” Sen. Dianne Feinstein, D-Calif., told the executives. “Yet you rack up record profits … quarter after quarter after quarter.”

“I’m sorry to sound like a victim. I don’t feel like a victim at all,” replied Robertson of Chevron, saying that he was proud of his company’s investments in future supply.

Sen. Richard Durbin, D-Ill, accused the corporate executives of ignoring the plight of people suffering because of high energy prices. “Where is your corporate conscience?” he asked them.

“The issue is simple,” said Leahy. “People we represent are hurting, the companies you represent are profiting.” []
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Madrid, detikfinance – Harga minyak kini sudah berada di level US$ 123 per barel. Namun Venezuela rela menjual minyaknya ke Spanyol dengan harga ‘hanya’ US$ 100 per barel untuk 10.000 barel minyak per harinya.

Sekitar US$ 400 juta akan diraup oleh Venezuela dari penjualan minyak itu. Dana tersebut selanjutnya akan disimpan dalam rekening bank di Madrid, untuk selanjutnya digunakan oleh Venezuela untuk mengimpor peralatan kesehatan dan barang-barang lainnya.

“Ini bisa membuat kita menciptakan arsitektur keuangan internasional baru di masa depan. Ini adalah percobaan, sebuah penemuan. Saya kira inilah waktunya untuk memulai sebuah penemuan baru dalam mekanisme baru kerjasama,” jelas Presiden Venezuela Hugo Chavez dalam wawancaranya dengan televisi TVE dan dikutip dari AFP, Sabtu (26/7/2008).

Chavez menyatakan, kesepakatan itu sudah difinalisasi selama pertemuannya dengan Perdana Menteri Spanyol Jose Luis Rodriguez Zapatero di Madrid Jumat kemarin.

“Dengan kerjasama ini kita bisa mengimpor makanan, peralatan medis, teknologi, tekniliti untuk energi angin yang mengambil perhatian besar kita,” imbuhnya.

Harga minyak sempat menembus level US$ 147 per barel. Namun pada akhir pekan ini, harga minyak sudah surut ke level US$ 123 per barel, atau berarti merosot 23 dolar dalam 2 pekan terakhir.

Venezuela sebelum ya telah memberikan diskon harga minyak kepada negara tetangganya di Amerika Latin, termasuk Kuba. []

Besides greediness, another factor that really affects the balance is rumors. Our society is now becoming very sensitive to rumors. Our society are becoming, like you said above ……. very irrational. In the society that lays their live on rumor, the balance will always be unstable. It is very dangerous but we have to live with it and we should get accustomed with it. So we have to be ready that everything will always be unstable even the instability itself.

I think more than 75% of the population in the world are the God believers including us, but contradictorily we do not really believe in God when it matters about our wealth. But that’s life. God created us to live in the world is to let us undergo some kind of probation before the judgment day and the hereafter. I hope God will put us in heaven. Amin amin Ya Robbalalamin.