Oil giant BP announces huge rise in profits in first results since Iran war

Only one way to find out!

Probably like shit, Botox and bitterness.

No, probably like oysters! You don’t want to chew it or taste it. Just add some lemon and hot sauce and swallow without chewing. Supposedly it makes you feel good.

May they end up like anchovies.

It selects for greedy maladjusted sociopaths. Normal people go the Gabe Newell route of f****** off to d*** around on yachts once you get super rich. Ya know, actually enjoying your money instead of hoarding it and always trying to get more and more like a junkie looking for a fix

You said f****** kids with no specific context, how dare you insult pedosent trump like that

That's because people making a lot of money that are any decent f****** dip as soon as they can. Parents, unclue, grandparents, made successful businesses. Parents sold the damn thing and retired at 50. Same for my grandparents. Taking care of their grandchild and playing golf. People making tens of millions and deciding "I need more" is just weird.

You have to sell your soul to be rich, you say?

slight correction, they’re not the dragon. theyre chasing the dragon. they never catch it tho if thats any consolation. which its not.

God I wish….

£1.16 a litre. To think we had actual strikes over £1 a litre the year before 9/11, we'll bite hands off for that now

I wish I had fuel that c****. My bit of Finland has 2 to 2,2 €/l. I spend 500 €/m on fuel just to commute to work. About one day's net earnings a week.

1US gallon = ~3.79 Liter So €1.58/L but that's still way less than the €2.21 ($8.38/Gallon) I'm paying here in The Netherlands.

Paid that in Germany, when i first startet driving...18 Years ago.

2,53 euros / L here sadly :/ and still climbing.

I know a lot of people who would LOVE to pay that price in the Netherlands lol. It's 2,20+ atm

What is that in football fields?

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It is cheaper than the rest of the globe. In part because the US gas tax hasn't changed for literal decades (it's been the same 18.4 cents/gallon (gasoline) and 24.4 cents/gallon (diesel) since 1993. However, US citizens are more reliant on their cars than most other nations. Which is a direct result of car companies lobbying the US government and favourable conditions for the development of car dependant suburbs (where no other forms of traffic are viable, except cars/motorcycles). This started as early as the 1940s, and has only gotten worse since then. Shops, schools etc are too far away or barely if at all reachable with anything other than a car. So any change in gas prices will affect the American household a lot more than the same jumps in most European/Asian countries. Where walking/cycling or public transport are viable alternatives for a lot of trips. The US has been ruined by nearly unchecked capitalism, which has resulted in a huge wealth and power disparity between the rich and poor. The only real way to fix it, would be to elect someone that really wants to fix it (e.g. Bernie Sanders) with enough support to actually get things done. But in the political climate there is now in the US, that would be a dream at best.

>Still cheaper than the rest of the globe Until you remember most of the US doesn't have good non-petrol public transportation. Some people literally have to decide between food or gas to get to work. 

In Australia, for diesel we’ve been paying $13.24 aid per gallon, which is $9.50usd at today’s rate.

The British East India Company sends their regard. ... and the Dutch East India Company, too.

Time for nationalization

I feel like we’re living in a sequel to the business plot where they avoided the Smedley types entirely. But this sequel has been unfolding for years/decades with each piece falling into place that makes (gestures broadly at everything) possible.

With palantir the next coup won't fail. Maybe it's already started.

And with Reiche/Merz at the helm Germany will 100% veto it.

Half the issue there though is it still doesn’t necessarily equate to lower prices for end customers. Specifically the windfall tax, when the windfall usually comes from price increases downstream The UK is how many years since we stopped buying Russian oil/gas and still haven’t reworked the entire energy price system in the country that inevitably hits people and small businesses hardest