# Why oil company profits are good

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**Created:** [October 31, 2007, 11:02am UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/why-oil-company-profits-are-good/37930 "2007-10-31T11:02:29Z")\
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**Post date:** [November 1, 2007, 6:36am UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/why-oil-company-profits-are-good/37930/21 "2007-11-01T06:36:29Z")

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[quote=“JayS”"]

Because they take those profits, and put them into R&D.

[http://money.cnn.com/2007/10/30/magazines/fortune/Oil\_from\_stone.fortune/index.htm?postversion=2007103105](http://money.cnn.com/2007/10/30/magazines/fortune/Oil_from_stone.fortune/index.htm?postversion=2007103105)

And that my friends is why a free market capitalist system is the greatest system in the world. Give people the opportunity to get rich and they’ll find the answers to any problem.

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Oh yea, free enterprise is awesome :tup:

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