Wednesday, June 10, 2009
To Paraphrase Captain Renault in Casablanca:
"I am shocked--SHOCKED--to find that murder and subterfuge are going on in the international petroleum cartel."
But, apparently, it is.
Before you get too mad about it though, please take solace in the fact that Shell Oil was coerced into paying 1/5 of their daily profits-- $15.5million*--to avoid messy details getting brought up in court.
Now let's all just go back to our instinctive daily ritual of ignoring Nigeria...
*2008 annual profit=$34.1billion, a record
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Labels:
Casablanca,
New York Times,
Nigeria,
Oil,
Shell
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