Big Oil's best quarter... Cheney's energy "task force" Mission Accomplished! (?) 
Odd, how Big Oil has done so well, actually, record-setting, call-Guiness Book of Records, well, when the rest of us seem to be working harder for less. Hmmm, wonder if there's any connection with Dick Cheney's super-secret energy "task force" meetings that were the top, #1 priority of the Bush-Cheney admin in May 2001, before they saw opportunity in the 9/11 events. Mission accomplished! (?)   Posted: 08.02.2008 

Here’s the “Top Stories” from Yahoo Finance. What’s wrong with this picture?

Top Stories

 - Stocks pull back after another decline in jobs- AP
 - Wall Street retreated again Friday after readings on jobs and manufacturing – the first reports for the third quarter - indicated that businesses and workers still face a tough economy. 
 - GM posts $15.5B 2Q loss, 3rd-worst in its history- AP 
 - US auto sales slump to 16-year low in July- AP 
 - Jobless rate climbs as 51,000 jobs vanish- AP 
 - Big Oil’s biggest quarter ever: $51.5B in all- AP

So, how’s your bottom line?

  "  In the late spring of 2001, Vice President Cheney held a series of top secret meetings with the representatives of Exxon-Mobil, Conoco, Shell and BP America for what was later called the Energy Task-force. Their job, ostensibly, was to map out America’s Energy future. Since late 2001 several public interest groups, including the very conservative Judicial Watch, sued to have the proceedings of those meetings opened to public scrutiny. In March 2002, the Commerce Department turned over a few documents from the Task-force meetings to Judicial Watch, among which was the map of Iraq’s Oil Fields, dated March 2001 (above) and a list of the existing “Foreign Suitors” for Iraq Oil. " (continues)

source for above quote:
http://jtaplin.wordpress.com/2008/02/14/its-all-about-oil-alan-greenspan/

More info on the Cheney agenda for boosting big oil’s bottom line (including maps of divying up Iraq) can be found here:

http://www.nrdc.org/air/energy/taskforce/tfinx.asp

http://www.judicialwatch.org/printer_iraqi-oilfield-pr.shtml

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Energy_Task_Force

http://www.halliburtonwatch.org/about_hal/energytf.html

http://writ.news.findlaw.com/dean/20040702.html

http://www.globalpolicy.org/security/oil/2003/0718taskforce.htm