I would like to meet the guys who control the prices at Exxon Gasoline. I mean seriously!!! This is just 1 company. Exxon set an annual profit record by earning $40.61 billion last year - or nearly $1,300 per second in 2007. That exceeded its previous record of $39.5 billion in 2006. <--- (one year after Katrina) In the fourth quarter, the company said revenue rose 29.5% from a year ago to $116.64 billion. That is ALL profit by the way. So if Exxon wanted to they could give everyone on the planet, 7 billion people, about 16 dollars each. Then we could all go out and buy 4 gallons of gas.