Why should this be incredible? Get a sense of perspective. Big companies have huge gross revenues and big net profits when they're successful, and take big losses when they're not - GM lost $12 Billion last quarter. My understanding is the oil companies net about 8% of their gross revenue, which is not a particularly great return - yes gas was expensive but crude wasn't particularly cheap if you recall, and it was ExxonMobile and ChevronTexaco etc that were cutting checks for that $140/bbl crude.