13.6 Billion pounds profit this year making them the most successful business ever (not sure if thats just in the UK though)
I know we pay a lot of tax on fuel and the government are probably making more but thats ridiculous!http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/business/7219148.stm[/quote] Not this old chestnut again. We covered this about two weeks back.http://londonbikers.com/forums/Topic291619-58-2.aspxOut of every pound spent at the forecourt. The oil company AND the retailer may get to share around 1/3rd, the rest goes to Gordon Brown - taxed twice with Fuel Duty and VAT.I think we are lucky that the Upstream and Midstream sectors of the oil industry can ensure delivery to fuel retailers for about 30p per litre. Given the high costs of exploration, extraction, tankerage, refining, road logistics and various other associated costs. The Retailers at the forecourt try to make money out of supermarket partnerships and value adds like Wild Bean or FMCG sales.The government are the scum. Shell should be applauded as a great British Company (…well Anglo-Dutch) making profits in a competitive business environment. (okay there are some environmental factors we should be more concerned about but business performance was the issue raised…)
WHY boycott Shell, you can’t just boycott a company becasue there doing well.
I like Shell they don’t make me remove my helmet, they charge more or less the same as every other station and the guys in my local are always friendly.
Even if all the Shell stations closed they would still be selling their products through other companies. They are probably selling petrol and diesel to the likes of Asda and Tesco. Boycotting them wouldn’t achieve anything.
Their profits are high because of the general price of crude. Not their fault. However the price that we pay at the pump is the partly the Governments fault. However as the lying goits love tax and spend I can’t see this situation improving.
total nuts, who found most of the bloody oil, shell…who spend a fortune on research into alternative fuels…shell, who employs bloody thousands of people…shell, get off their case…they are a superb company…and one that has shone through in terms of its attitude to the future for us all…boycott them at your own peril…what the kin hell is wrong with making profits…what happens when times are tough for them as they have been in the past will we all volunteer to pay more…
i can think of many many reasons but no doubt you will have your own views on them to so i’ll keep them to myself i think.Crazy? Each to thier own i say, freedom of speech n all that!
hey didnt say dont say it, just said its crazy to boycott them…its by you saying that we see that the truth is companies need to make silly profits to meet all the world issues that stop them from doing research and or finding new sources of oil…it isnt easy…
And I love to debate any topic, I do not infer in any of my debates that they are my views or my personal opinion its just a point of view…I certainly would not make any of my remarks personal…if they seem that I am sorry…not meant to be…but if you want to take it further then see you on the track…zx10 against your toy…:D;)
Look up Ken Saro Wiwa and how Shell profit from damaging people’s land and environment in places like Nigeria, where they are in cahoots with corrupt governments…Yeah, Shell, you’re the greatest :laugh:
Know what you mean the Nigerian government owes me a lot of money.
But shell are not going to be able to change the issue of the corrupt government… that is the peoples job…they (shell) are just getting the oil…and I am certain that whilst standards are not as high as elsewhere in the world they run a very tight ship and certainly it cannot be shown that Shell is abusing the country any more than anyone else…and there is a lot of evidence that they are doing more than most to re-invest locally…
I ran a company in Nigeria for 3 years and corruption is everywhere…