OMG!! Texas Fines ExxonMobil $150,462 For Air Pollution Violations!!!

[hatrack]

Poor ExxonMobil! How will they survive?!?! :cry:

HOUSTON - "Texas fined Exxon Mobil Corp. (XOM.N: Quote, Profile, Research) $150,462 this week for violations of air pollution regulations at the company's 363,000 barrel per day (bpd) refinery in Beaumont, Texas.

According to a statement issued by the Texas Commission on Environmental Quality the violations were discovered during investigations in 2002."

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[meegbear]

1. OMG! Gas prices are gonna skyrocket!

How can they afford it?!?

[phantom power]

2. damned government, with its boot on the throat of free enterprise!

[NV Whino]

3. Not to worry

They will weasel out of it somehow.

[bookman]

4. There goes...

..this month's petty cash fund at Exxon.

[Viking12]

5. Exxon will spend more on the PR campaign

that will condemn this "travesty of justice" :think:

[hatrack]

6. That , or the PR campaign about their "environmental leadership"

blahblahblahblahblah . . .

[hunter]

7. The $9.00 an hour part time clerk who signs the check...

... won't even have to get permission from his supervisor. It will be listed on the books as "state fees, misc."

[enki23]

8. fucking trial lawyers are going to ruin the terrific bush economy

.

[Lucky Luciano]

9. That'll teach them! nt