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...Boycott Green Mountain Energy!" screams the aptly named website www.boycottgreenmountain.com. "The Mountain is a landfill!" Hard-core environmentalists, far from rejoicing at the prospect of a for-profit, self-sustaining clean-energy company, think of Green Mountain as something of a Trojan horse, and Kelly its Ulysses...
...making the money? A Federal Trade Commission investigation in March ruled out collusion among the oil companies, who have been in a consolidation mode since the late '90s. And relative prices are still lower than they were in the '60s. That's not to say refinery profit margins haven't increased handsomely from the supply squeeze. Operating profits have surged this year at refiners like Valero and big oil companies like BP Amoco and ExxonMobil. "Refiners have made a killing over the past 15-to-18 months," says Chris Stavros, an oil-industry analyst at UBS Warburg. Stavros points...
...pain at the pump has put Big Oil in the profiteering spotlight again, albeit with an Internet twist. At least one widely distributed chain e-mail encourages readers to boycott stations operated by ExxonMobil, the largest gasoline retailer in the U.S. Exxon's profits roared 44% higher in the first quarter, to $5 billion, on fattened profit margins. The 27 largest energy firms in the U.S. earned $14.1 billion in the fourth quarter of 2000--more than double their profits in the same period a year earlier, reports the Energy Information Agency. Of course, there were no complaints while Exxon...
...Poetry and profit, however, have rarely been a good marriage. Nor do critics see much potential for great literature in SMS. In fact, cute abbreviations like wassup, ruup4it and clever "emoticon" symbols such as :-) and :-( make real poetry lovers wince. "Puh-leeze!" says Hamish Ironside of Anvil Press, an independent poetry publisher in London. "This isn't literature. It's a game, a fad." And besides, he adds, "I don't have a mobile phone...
...Part of our overall real estate strategy is to sell off property where we feel the market situation is right to realize a profit on it,” Colcord said...