Exxon gets about 8 percent per dollar.  If only my savings account (which I only get 1 percent on) gets about 8 percent.
Only an idiot would believe that a government guaranteed passive investment (passbook savings account) should get the same return as a risky active investment (finding, drilling, distilling, and distribution of oil and oil products).

"To take from one, because it is thought his own industry and that of his fathers has acquired too much, in order to spare to others, who, or whose fathers, have not exercised equal industry and skill, is to violate arbitrarily the first principle of association, the guarantee to everyone the free exercise of his industry and the fruits acquired by it." --Thomas Jefferson