Uh.....No shit Bill, you think?

"If there are those who abuse the free enterprise system to advantage themselves and their businesses at the expense of all Americans, they ought to be exposed, and they ought to be ashamed," Frist said in a statement. Exxon Mobil Profit, Sales Soar to Records Exxon Mobil Corp. (XOM) rewrote the corporate record books Thursday as the oil company's third-quarter earnings soared to almost $10 billion and it became the first public company ever with quarterly sales topping $100 billion. Third-quarter earnings at some energy companies: Company - Profit ExxonMobil $9.92B Royal Dutch Shell $9.03B BP $6.53B ConocoPhillips $3.8B Marathon Oil $770M Burlington Resources $748M Apache $687M Amerada Hess $272M Chevron reports today Valero reports next week Hillary Clinton "Today's news of record profits by our nation's oil companies further proves the point that it is time for them to step up to the plate and use the huge benefits they are reaping to become part of our nation's energy solution." Harry Reid "It's long past time the Senate addressed the record high prices consumers have faced the past months," Reid said in a statement. "While oil companies have reaped record profits, middle-class families have been left wondering whether anyone had noticed." Howard Dean They [Republicans] continue to hold on to the hands of big oil. Their idea is to give billions of dollars of tax breaks to special interests and to give billions of dollars to big oil companies that turn around and gouge the American people. Instead of leaving this in the hands of oil executives, President Bush and Republicans in Washington ought to stand up to oil companies". Charles Schumer "All together, the 29 major oil and gas firms in the Standard and Poors 500 stock index are expected to earn 96 billion dollars this year -- up from 68 billion dollars last year and 43 billion dollars in 2003. Its become perfectly clear that the big oil companies are cashing in while average American families are being bled dry," John Dingell "What was the Republican answer to the hurricanes? More subsidies to the oil industry."