Comments on: What’s $15 billion? Putting Exxon Mobil’s record-breaking profits into perspective

By: Robyn Johnson

Robyn Johnson — Sat, 01 Nov 2008 18:21:49 +0000

Ah, shoot. Thanks for the correction guys. I failed to realize that the figure I researched represented 13,811,200 million. D'oh.

By: Hal

Hal — Sat, 01 Nov 2008 02:28:10 +0000

Wow! We toss around the idea of billions these days like we used to with millions. It's nice to put it in perspective like this. Quick note–US GDP in 2007 was $13.8 trillion. But still, $15 billion is more than the GDP of nearly half the world's countries. And this company earned that in one quarter!

By: Doug_Wolfgram

Doug_Wolfgram — Fri, 31 Oct 2008 22:49:45 +0000

You should try to get at least some facts straight. You said "$15 billion is 100 times the US’ GDP in 2007"??? You're off by a factor of 1000. You really believe the US GDP in 2007 was only $150M? The 2007 GDP was $13.78 trillion.