Hmmm....if I got a $400 million dollar bonus, I'd love oil too.
[h3] Lee Raymond, Big Oil Fat Cat. [/h3] And the [a href="vny!://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fat_cat"]fattest cat[/a] of them all is ... Lee Raymond of ExxonMobile! Lee Raymond, the retiring CEO and Chairman of the world's largest oil company got a retirement package worth $400 million, one of the most generous retirement packages ever.[/p] [blockquote][em]Exxon is giving Lee Raymond one of the most generous retirement packages in history, nearly $400 million, including pension, stock options and other perks, such as a $1 million consulting deal, two years of home security, personal security, a car and driver, and use of a corporate jet for professional purposes. [/em](via [a href="vny!://www.abcnews.go.com/GMA/story?id=1841989"]ABC News[/a])[/p][/blockquote] [p style="font-weight: bold;"]That just so happened to work out to be $141,000 a day, nearly $6,000 an hour or $100 a minute.[/p] In 2005, amidst rising gas prices at pumps across the world, Exxon made $36 billion, the biggest profit of any company in history. Meanwhile, Raymond, told Congress that gas prices were high because of global supply and demand, claiming that "We're all in this together, everywhere in the world". [/p]
