<![CDATA[Round 35: Exxon vs United Airlines - Consumerist Comments]]> <![CDATA[Round 35: Exxon vs United Airlines - Consumerist Comments]]> <![CDATA[Round 35: Exxon vs United Airlines]]> @JustaConsumer: What he said. Please fix the polls.

mavrc

]]> <![CDATA[Round 35: Exxon vs United Airlines]]> they never work...

bhall03

]]> <![CDATA[Round 35: Exxon vs United Airlines]]> not going to waste my time with these votes anymore...

bhall03

]]> <![CDATA[Round 35: Exxon vs United Airlines]]> I don't understand this "Oil companies are just doing business, that's why they're profitable. Go cry about it, etc." attitude the minority of people seem to have. It's the "Worst Company in America" poll, and I define "worst company" as "they don't do me any good/I hate them." Exxon gets my vote.

karmaghost

]]> <![CDATA[Round 35: Exxon vs United Airlines]]> @homerjay: With gas $3.63 a gallon now, I really find it hard to vote against Exxon in any situation.

Moosehawk

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JustaConsumer

]]> <![CDATA[Round 35: Exxon vs United Airlines]]> Ben, please fix the voting. Come on.

JustaConsumer

]]> <![CDATA[Round 35: Exxon vs United Airlines]]> @gomakemeasandwich: umm.... no

Exxon is making a ton of money. I believe they made like 4 million dollars in revenue a second last year. Something like that. I do not know what their profit margin is, but i do know they are making a killing right now. Never the less, Taxes always plays a part. You have to be an idiot not to realize that. When you go to the gas pump, you are basicly paying .45 federal, 1.00 local, and sometimes .50 County taxes.

Obviously those numbers are not correct, but they do exist and federal is the lower of the three if i remember correctly.

: P

AaronC

]]> <![CDATA[Round 35: Exxon vs United Airlines]]> Format above is crap. At least link us back to the original posts, eh?

Squeegoth

]]> <![CDATA[Round 35: Exxon vs United Airlines]]> I haven't dealt with Exxon since the Valdes disaster. Exxon gas is always about two cents higher than any other brand in my area. I can only assume that Exxon is trying to make their customers pay for the cleanup. Amazingly, many customers are falling for it.

Bobg

]]> <![CDATA[Round 35: Exxon vs United Airlines]]> @Toof_75_75:

How would it make gas more expensive? They could tax Exxon at 70% and it would still turn a profit, as most people need gasoline.

Am I only one that's tired of the bullshit "taxes" argument for why gas rices are so high?

gomakemeasandwich

]]> <![CDATA[Round 35: Exxon vs United Airlines]]> @ToddBradley:

Well the problem is that Exxon's product is the fuel or device that powers our cars. Now, considering they're using basically the same product (gasoline) for the past 100 years with little innovation, I would have to say their product sucks too.

gomakemeasandwich

]]> <![CDATA[Round 35: Exxon vs United Airlines]]> @dotyoureyes:

Part of the increase in food prices has to do with that bullshit ethanol that Corporate America is trying to shove down our throats.

gomakemeasandwich

]]> <![CDATA[Round 35: Exxon vs United Airlines]]> @Nealjs:

Good point.

gomakemeasandwich

]]> <![CDATA[Round 35: Exxon vs United Airlines]]> It really does come down to the definition of "worst."

Worst in terms of serving their customers? Clearly United.

Worst in terms of tanking the American economy, raising food prices, and destroying wildlife while raking in the largest profits in world history? Ummmm. yeah.

Exxon's gonna sweep the floor with the remaining companies.

dotyoureyes

]]> <![CDATA[Round 35: Exxon vs United Airlines]]> This one is easy for me. Exxon is greed personified. Record profits while gas is at an all time high and people are struggling to fill their tanks! Exxon posted the largest annual (2007) profit by a U.S. company: $40.6 BILLION, which one article broke down to earning about a little over $75,000 a minute.

While it's true Exxon is not the only player in the oil game, they are the worst offenders. Rotten greedy bastards.

If I have to run out of gas passing an Exxon station, I will. NEVER will I give them a dime of my money again. One Texas town had it right then they boycotted Exxon as well.

Lambasted

]]> <![CDATA[Round 35: Exxon vs United Airlines]]> This lineup is interesting in how different these two companies are.

One company (Exxon) reliably delivers a good quality product at extremely high prices. They make so much money people hate them.

The other company (United), in an attempt to deliver a product at extremely low prices, is neither reliable nor of good quality. They make so little money people have to bail them out of bankruptcy.

No doubt Exxon should win if the name of the contest was "Most Hated Company in America" but it's "Worst Company in America." Has Exxon really ever failed to provide the quality of product you expected when you bought it? I doubt it.

So, as much as I dislike Exxon, I have to admit they do a good job of meeting their customers' needs. The same can't be said for United.

ToddBradley

]]> <![CDATA[Round 35: Exxon vs United Airlines]]> I for one will no longer vote until I get the recaps back. Yes, I am that lazy.

Gann

]]> <![CDATA[Round 35: Exxon vs United Airlines]]> Which is worse? An apple or a watermelon???

This is seriously what you guys are asking on a daily basis. This is a ridiculous method of polling. Try pairing up companies with comparable services.

Nealjs

]]> <![CDATA[Round 35: Exxon vs United Airlines]]> I like how everyone overlooks the ridiculous taxes that are placed against oil companies and blames oil company profits for the high prices. I'm sure the same people will be voting for the democrats who look to increase taxes against oil companies, which will obviously make the price of gas even more expensive...

Toof_75_75

]]> <![CDATA[Round 35: Exxon vs United Airlines]]> @Trai_Dep:

That dude is the epitome of greed...and Exxon coincidentally.

gomakemeasandwich

]]> <![CDATA[Round 35: Exxon vs United Airlines]]> @Propaniac: That is to say, to use the vernacular of the site, you can look at their match-ups in Tier 1, which were Round #5 and Round #6. This vote, Round #35, is the third round in Tier 2.

Propaniac

]]> <![CDATA[Round 35: Exxon vs United Airlines]]> You can click on the "WORST COMPANY IN AMERICA" tag and go back to these companies' matchups in Round 1 to read the reasons that were posted then. This is the third contest in Round 2, so it's #5 and #6 in Round 1. (Although it appears #6 actually didn't get tagged. But you can find it under the Previouslys for #7.)

Propaniac

]]> <![CDATA[Round 35: Exxon vs United Airlines]]> While Exxon gets brownie points for casting Jabba the Hut as their CEO, unfortunately they're too tone-deaf to realize most of the world is rather fond of that Wookie fellow.

[www.commondreams.org]

Trai_Dep

]]> <![CDATA[Round 35: Exxon vs United Airlines]]> @trk182:

Cause we all know it's about the bottom line & nothing else matters, right?

Greed got us into this mess, greed can't get us out.

Jaysyn was banned for: http://consumerist.com/5032912/the-subprime-meltdown-will-be-nothing-compared-to-the-prime-meltdown#c7042646

]]> <![CDATA[Round 35: Exxon vs United Airlines]]> @rmz:

Of course.

gomakemeasandwich

]]> <![CDATA[Round 35: Exxon vs United Airlines]]> @trk182:

You must be like some type of uber retard from the future.

Do you really just want someone to tell you that you're really awesome for buying oil stocks, like no one could see from a mile away that oil companies would become more profitable?

gomakemeasandwich

]]> <![CDATA[Round 35: Exxon vs United Airlines]]> I love all you people who hate oil companies so much that you still drive your car and buy gas. I have no problem with Exxon, most people who had enough brains to buy stock in oil companies have no problem with them being successful. Cry more that really helps. Oh and if you're really "Green" the best thing you can do for the environment is...Suicide.

trk182

]]> <![CDATA[Round 35: Exxon vs United Airlines]]> Looks like we have some Exxon employees voting

jeblis

]]> <![CDATA[Round 35: Exxon vs United Airlines]]> @gomakemeasandwich: Undercover United Airlines employees on the Consumerist, of course.

rmz

]]> <![CDATA[Round 35: Exxon vs United Airlines]]> Wow, Exxon is winning with 77%. I wonder why.

gomakemeasandwich

]]> <![CDATA[Round 35: Exxon vs United Airlines]]> Exxon. You might be able to avoid air travel, but it's not always easy to avoid the gas pump.

BigElectricCat

]]> <![CDATA[Round 35: Exxon vs United Airlines]]> Well, I know that I nominated Exxon Mobile, as I'm sure many did, so here was my reason: Record high oil prices (and this was back when the record was $100/barrel), record high gas prices, record high profits. The price of gas and diesel is driving up the cost of consumer goods, most notably groceries, and causing our already strained economy to be even moreso. Plus, they got off pretty easy for the Valdez spill. And I'm surly.

hilighter

]]> <![CDATA[Round 35: Exxon vs United Airlines]]> The voting once again doesn't work... first attempt to vote, it just reloads the home page, second attempt, you get a big fat 404 ERROR

pmcpa2

]]> <![CDATA[Round 35: Exxon vs United Airlines]]> Ooops I forgot to note: Exxon, by a mile. At least United sometimes has cheap airfare...

Exxon is part of the oil cartel that can actually get away with INCREASING their profits while their product's price continues to inflate geometrically.

blackmage439

]]> <![CDATA[Round 35: Exxon vs United Airlines]]> I will be repeating this for every half-@$$ed poll Consumerist posts:

What's going on, Ben? What happened to the nice, stream-lined voting app you had during the earlier rounds? On top of that, we've been seeing some lame descriptions of the companies, if any at all. It's either:

1. "No reason for this submission was given [but we're putting it out there anyway]", or

2. No description of either company's wrongdoing.

As it stands right now: Consumerist "Worst" voting? EPIC FAIL.

blackmage439

]]> <![CDATA[Round 35: Exxon vs United Airlines]]> Both are bad. Hard to choose which is worse.

Serpephone

]]> <![CDATA[Round 35: Exxon vs United Airlines]]> Seriously, what has happened to the recaps?

NewPerfection

]]> <![CDATA[Round 35: Exxon vs United Airlines]]> Boy, I forgot about the oil companies. We should just end this thing now and hand it to that entire industry.

homerjay- Smiling politely

]]> <![CDATA[Round 35: Exxon vs United Airlines]]> A recap of WHY these companies are so bad would be helpful!

ThunderRoad

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