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Just reporting a couple of interesting facts. Last year, Exxon Mobil had revenues of $42 million per hour. And each hour of every day of the year they made $4.1 million in profit. (Year-end revenue $371 billion, $36.1 billion in profits).

Apparently, that’s quite good, for a company trying to make money. To put that in perspective, one hour of Exxon’s profits would be enough to hire 225 people at $10/hr, 35 hrs a week for a full year. If you had a really big project needing people paid at $20/hr, say, you could take the Exxon’s 2005 profits and hire 990,000 people (assuming 35 hr workweek, 52 weeks a year). If you wanted to be generous you could pay 200,000 people $100/hr for a year.

I don’t know exactly what I mean by all that, but it sure seems like Exxon Mobil makes lots of money.