Price gouging?

Theres no one so dispicable that they would use a national emergency as a way to turn a quick profit, is there? How low do you have to sink in the caves of moral decency to turn the deaths of hundreads of people in to a finicial opportunity to screw people?
Washington Post

And tomorrow, analysts expect Exxon Mobil Corp. to show that it earned nearly $9 billion over the past three months -- the largest corporate quarterly profit ever.

Im not sure if that means highest ever for that company or highest ever for any company, but it doesnt matter its a record profits for the last three months, hmm I wonder why?