From: Bill Lucy 

In article , email{at}from_Gary_Britt.org says...
> It is amazing your inability to continue to show your complete inability to
> even focus your questions and thinking on the subject at hand.  Are we
> discussing whether people are buying telecommunications stocks?  Did I say
> nobody was buying telecommunications stocks?  We are discussing whether the
> oil companies are extraordinarily profitable compared to other companies.

You are the one who brought P/E ratio to the discussion. You continue to
beat this dog. My task here is to indicate that it's only a piece of the
information, it's not THE information.

The beginnning or our discussion was the posting of the FACT that Exxon
Mobil set a record for quarterly profit at $10 billion. Total industry
profit for the quarter approached $20 billion, a record.

I believe that any reasonable person would consider these profits
extraordinary, since setting records by their nature are
"extraordinary".

You can deny that by using some comparison that represents your best spin.
You've tried and, IMHO, you have failed.

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