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Originally Posted by philanderer
Well I originally got the number wrong...it's really a billion for the year...and yes I am caught up in some percentage. I want a high MANDATED percentage put into research of new energies, pollution, etc.
Are you telling me that you think BP should put out a commercial citing new energy research as their top priority and yet only put 1/20 of their profit into it...hell a dollar is a great deal of money if you have none. 1 B is not a great deal of money to a company making a 20 B PROFIT.
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They had high profits for one quarter, you can't accurately extrapolate that over a year. And also, they are a corporation, not a public service. There job is to make profit, not to do research. And also, did they specifically say that new energy research is their top priority, or is that just your spin of their commercial citing their more than generous efforts into research in that area. Because if they did say that new energy research is their top priority, I would assume that the upper management will soon be getting a call to appear before their board of directors.
And as for the mandated percentage put into research, that's the most ridiculous thing I've heard. All that would do is cause companies to relocate from America, or cause an equivalent increase in gas prices.