Oil companies, and their trade groups are neck deep in all of this. Exxon, Chevron, BP, Royal Dutch, Total, Eni, I forget the rest. They’ve trade groups that hire influence operations all over social media, lobbyists, they commission studies to work backwards from their desired goal, and everything else.
I forget the windfall they’ve had from the higher oil prices, but it’s huge. Plus refiners increased their margins for distillates, like diesal and gasoline, from 15 percent to 100 percent per a reuters article a month back I can’t find now but reuters has referenced in other successive articles.
Oil companies, and their trade groups are neck deep in all of this. Exxon, Chevron, BP, Royal Dutch, Total, Eni, I forget the rest. They’ve trade groups that hire influence operations all over social media, lobbyists, they commission studies to work backwards from their desired goal, and everything else.
I forget the windfall they’ve had from the higher oil prices, but it’s huge. Plus refiners increased their margins for distillates, like diesal and gasoline, from 15 percent to 100 percent per a reuters article a month back I can’t find now but reuters has referenced in other successive articles.