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Oil sector’s ‘staggering’ $3bn-a-day profits for last 50 years (theguardian.com)
7 points by chunkyslink 1427 days ago
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>Vast sums provide power to ‘buy every politician’ and delay action on climate crisis, says expert

That explains why this industry gets USD 6 trillion of publicly paid subsidies from governments.

Source: https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2021/oct/06/fossil-f...