fun fast facts

• ExxonMobil just reported the largest quarterly profits—$9.9 billion—of any American corporation in history.
• Over the last decade, Exxon has given more than $5.2 million to Republicans, while giving less than $650,000 to Democrats.
• This year, 91% of Exxon's political contributions have gone to Republicans.
• ExxonMobil is the only oil company that remains part of Arctic Power, the group lobbying Congress to open the pristine Arctic National Wildlife Refuge to oil drilling. Congress will cast the final vote on drilling in the Arctic shortly.
• Exxon's tanker killed hundreds of thousands of seals, otters, birds, fish and whales when it spilled 11 million gallons of thick, deadly crude oil into the waters of Alaska's pristine Prince William Sound. Yet despite making a record profit of $25 billion last year, ExxonMobil is still shirking payment of the full amount it owes fishermen and natives hurt by the spill 16 years ago!

If you could think about this when you choose which gas station to fill your tank at, that'd be great. If not, that's okay. We're all doomed anyway.