When the going gets chaotic,

you can rest assured chaos is the plan. For some Baron of Hell somewhere.



[tip o'teh tinfoil to Avedon]

If Exon doesn't strike your fancy, it's blood and souls for Chevron, too:

...Chevron said Friday that record oil prices drove second-quarter earnings up 11 percent to its highest-ever profit, but weak margins from gasoline production led to a big loss at its refining operations...

I'm sooo sorry, but they used the word profit. So instead of the sympathy-for-the-Devil phrase "...but weak margins from gasoline production led to a big loss at its refining operations...," they should have said "...despite weak margins from gasoline production led to a big loss at its refining operations..." Which wouldn't have induced sympathy at all.

Just sayin'.