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Oljebolagen har gjort "bumper profits" på de höga bensinpriserna. Tillsammans någon biljon kronor! Inte behöver de öka produktionen inte, eller använda vinsterna för klimatförbättrande åtgärder inte, nej, nej.
Den miljöförstöring bolagen bidrar till dödar årligen tre gånger så många människor som Covid gjorde under 2020.
Tidningen och de amerikanska myndigheterna skräder inte orden. Självklart påverkas våra priser av samma faktorer.
Soppan är kanske uppe i en 9-10 kronor litern i USA. Då är det kris. Vi i Europa sjunker i ett träsk medan alla köpta politiker bara jamar med.
Citat:
Exclusive: oil companies’ profits soared to $174bn this year as US gas prices rose
Exxon, Chevron, Shell and BP among group of 24 who resisted calls to increase production but doled out shareholder dividends
The largest oil and gas companies made a combined $174bn in profits in the first nine months of the year as gasoline prices climbed in the US, according to a new report.
The bumper profit totals, provided exclusively to the Guardian, show that in the third quarter of 2021 alone, 24 top oil and gas companies made more than $74bn in net income. From January to September, the net income of the group, which includes Exxon, Chevron, Shell and BP, was $174bn.
But oil and gas companies have shown little willingness so far to ramp up production to help reduce costs and the new report, by the government watchdog group Accountable.US, accuses them of “taking advantage of bloated prices, fleecing American families along the way” amid ongoing fallout from the Covid-19 pandemic.
“Americans looking for someone to blame for the pain they experience at the pump need look no further than the wealthy oil and gas company executives who choose to line their own pockets rather than lower gas prices with the billions of dollars in profit big oil rakes in month after month,” said Kyle Herrig, president of Accountable.US.
Aside from its role in the current high gasoline prices, the oil and gas industry is a leading driver of the climate crisis, the reality of which it sought to conceal from the public for decades, and is a key instigator of the air pollution that kills nearly 9 million a year, a death toll three times that of the Covid-19 pandemic in 2020.
https://www.theguardian.com/business...hell-exclusive