I do find it hilarious that these greedy son of a bitch companies have been making monumental profits for decades and not passing on the prices of petrol and diesel barrel prices instantly, they kept ramping it up and up and no matter what happened for years the pump prices rose. Now, they can't get away from it and they are suddenly bitching and moaning as their profit margins are falling away and they can't do what they used to do and just rack up the prices anymore. In the UK because fleets use diesel all of a sudden over a period of years diesel suddenly became more expensive than petrol, and we all just put up with it like Hindu cows. And they were allowed to get away with it.
They cut corners while they were at it and batter local populations and the environment, and we are supposed to feel sorry for them? You can stick it up yer jacksy, they are primarily responsible for the environmental situation and have been allowed to do whatever they want for too long, and now they are ******* themselves!
They got too big, too fat, too lazy and realised this stuff ain't going to last forever and if we want to keep selling it we have to drill 10 times harder for massive increase in costs in places we don't want to to continue making money, while also investing in future fuels to continue in our marketplace. You know aswell as I do there are alternatives ready to go sitting in safes at Exxon, Total, Shell. But they will only use them and invest in them when it becomes unprofitable to sell oil, not ANYTHING else to do so.
If they were more honest about it I would have some sympathy, but instead the ruthless gits just sack hundreds of people to keep shareholders happy rather than doing anything about it, or doing anything about the latent damage they were doing to the environment for decades until it became a selling point to us the consumer.