Nickname: ljm

Review: It's astounding to me how anyone could compare pro athelete's income to big oil!! We can choose whether or not we go to a game! Bush has to reward & repay all who got him elected! Wake up America!

Date reviewed: May 9, 2006 3:45 PM

Nickname: poorman

Review: I am barely able to fill my tank because the greedy execs at Big Oil prefer to buy back instead of building more refineries. Don't count on ethanol. Look how they planted a new CEO at ADM.

Date reviewed: May 1, 2006 9:26 PM

Nickname: gac

Review: Go ahead, boycott ExxonMobil, they sell all of 13% of the retail fuel in the US. BP and Shell sell 15% each. Why not boycott those non-US companies? This info is all in the public domain. Why are Americans so ignorant and easily swayed by negative media campaigns?

Date reviewed: May 1, 2006 6:42 PM

Nickname: BRR

Review: Please, if you want to give back to the shareholders increase the dividends and stop the buyback. Who knows if the dividend tax will stay at 15%. In my book that's how to increase shareholders value.

Date reviewed: May 1, 2006 4:56 PM

Nickname: sbk

Review: American consumers have no right to complain about high gas prices. Maybe, if we got off those insanely large 'Armoured Personal carriers' and 'Tanks' and drove real vehicles, the price of gas will come down. Until then be prepared to hand over your money to the Exxons and the OPECs of the world. After all, we are practically begging to get robbed.

Date reviewed: May 1, 2006 4:16 PM

Nickname: cloud2819

Review: You know what, maybe $400 million is a lot, but look what the guy did for the company and how long he has been there. Do any of you know what a CEO for a billion dollar company has to do? He works a lot more then your 40 hour, 9 to 5 jobs. He's away from his home and family for weeks at a time. My investment went from $40,000 to $2.5 million not to mention about $60,000 a year in dividends

Date reviewed: May 1, 2006 3:52 PM

Nickname: Jokester

Review: I wish people would quit complaining about high gas prices - we've caused that ourselves. Instead, we should be contacting our government representatives and demand immediate and aggressive action on alternative energy. We can do it in spite of big oil. Doing so, would either force big oil to invest their earnings in new technology and shift their focus to providing alternative energy, or they will become dinosaurs. We need desparately to shift our focus and get off the oil and quit sending US dollars to the Middle East and other rogue oil producing countries. Money would speak louder that any other action we could take.

Date reviewed: May 1, 2006 2:02 PM

Nickname: Vietvet

Review: XOM has been very good to me over the years. Considering the amount of money the pro athletes get, Lee Raymond's salary and retirement package is a steal, deserves it, has done a magnificent job over the years. As for the boycott, have at it, own lots of Vanguard Energy too, have too buy from some company, if not XOM, then Marathon, Valero,CVX, on and on.

Date reviewed: May 1, 2006 1:38 PM

Nickname: dr777

Review: Isn't it interesting how people like DC and the media think executive pay packages are their business. If you think society should stay out of the bedroom and other areas of peoples' lives, stop saying and reporting like this. That said, executive pay is within the purview of the stockholders, and as a significant shareholder of ExxonMobil (and a big fan of Mr. Raymond) I think we paid more than we should have. I would like shareholders to have more power over approving both executive pay packages and union contracts. And I mean shareholder votes on these. Unfortunately, most critics are not looking out for the shareholders.

Date reviewed: May 1, 2006 1:29 PM

Nickname: Exxbpellotal

Review: You've got to be kidding, right? A half million dollars a year is enough pay to motivate people to have broken marriages due to work and not being able to watch their kids grow up? You know how much it costs to own a decent place in NY/NJ/Conn in a decent neighborhood?Although I agree $400 million is a bit too much, I personally think $5 to $10 million a year is fair. Otherwise I might as well quit my job and rely on government money. Let the market speak please.

Date reviewed: Apr 29, 2006 5:42 AM