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Post by the Scribe on Jul 11, 2022 22:15:57 GMT
"Oil and gas companies do not want to drill more," Pavel Molchanov, an analyst at Raymond James, said earlier this spring.
"They are under pressure from the financial community to pay more dividends, to do more share buybacks, instead of the proverbial 'drill baby drill,' which is the way they would have done things 10 years ago. Corporate strategy has fundamentally changed."
One of the starkest examples: ExxonMobil (XOM) last month announced first quarter profits of $8.8 billion, more than triple the level of a year ago when excluding special items. It also announced a $30 billion share repurchase plan, far more than the $21 billion to $24 billion it expects to spend on all capital investment, including searching for new oil.
www.cnn.com/2022/06/06/energy/record-gas-prices-causes/index.html
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Post by the Scribe on Jul 12, 2022 13:55:27 GMT
In a crony capitalist society like has taken hold in the US why would an energy company do anything less than take care of themselves and their shareholders OVER the well being of the country? Now that corporations are people they can be just as greedy and selfish as anyone else, especially RepubliCONservatives.
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