Hello Paul, looks like you beat me to the Exxon/Mobil Corp obscene profits story :-) Evidence for all to see, of the biggest, Big Profit Machine on the planet. Huge riches to be had, a supply infrastructure of enormous size in place, in every nation, and the powerful, will get thier oil, while it last, one way or another. The Oil Barons will be drilling in the Alaskan Refuge soon, and now are attempting to reopen drilling for new wells, on the West Coast. Evironmental safegaurds related to pollution, caused by hydrocarbon consumption, will more and more, fall by the wayside, as supply tightens, and more environmentally destructive energy source options are used , to try and mitigate the building energy crisis worldwide.