{"id":4864,"date":"2023-02-25T03:01:00","date_gmt":"2023-02-25T03:01:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.asadkarim.co.uk\/?p=4864"},"modified":"2023-02-13T11:06:05","modified_gmt":"2023-02-13T11:06:05","slug":"bp-and-shells-profits","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.asadkarim.co.uk\/?p=4864","title":{"rendered":"BP and Shell&#8217;s profits"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>A graph paints a clear picture.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.asadkarim.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/02\/ShellBP.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"576\" src=\"https:\/\/www.asadkarim.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/02\/ShellBP-1024x576.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-4865\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.asadkarim.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/02\/ShellBP-1024x576.png 1024w, https:\/\/www.asadkarim.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/02\/ShellBP-300x169.png 300w, https:\/\/www.asadkarim.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/02\/ShellBP-768x432.png 768w, https:\/\/www.asadkarim.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/02\/ShellBP-624x351.png 624w, https:\/\/www.asadkarim.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/02\/ShellBP.png 1280w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/a><figcaption>Courtesy of the BBC<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>Their is a lot of media speculation about the huge profits of the energy companies. The talk is about making extra taxes on their huge profits, such as windfall taxes.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>However, when the oil companies make huge losses, their is never talk about a Government cash injection or bailout.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/news\/business-55931523\">https:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/news\/business-55931523<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/business\/2021\/feb\/02\/bp-loss-covid-19-oil-demand\">https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/business\/2021\/feb\/02\/bp-loss-covid-19-oil-demand<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/news\/business-55907863\">https:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/news\/business-55907863<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A graph paints a clear picture. Their is a lot of media speculation about the huge profits of the energy companies. The talk is about making extra taxes on their huge profits, such as windfall taxes. However, when the oil companies make huge losses, their is never talk about a Government cash injection or bailout. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4864","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.asadkarim.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4864","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.asadkarim.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.asadkarim.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.asadkarim.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.asadkarim.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=4864"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.asadkarim.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4864\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4866,"href":"https:\/\/www.asadkarim.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4864\/revisions\/4866"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.asadkarim.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4864"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.asadkarim.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4864"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.asadkarim.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4864"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}