By STEVE HAWKES, Business Editor: Friday 28 October 2011
*£12.5bn cash in the bank
*90,000 staff around the world
*3m output in millions of barrels a day
SOARING oil and gas prices have sent profits surging to £49million a day at SHELL.
The energy giant made a whopping £4.5billion over the three months to October DOUBLE the same period a year ago.
Yesterday’s figures come as drivers are being forced off the road by soaring petrol prices as the cost of oil hits record highs.
AA chiefs claim a quarter of motorists are cutting back.
AA president Edmund King said motorists “will not be pleased” to see oil giants making a killing.
But he insisted many now blame the Chancellor more than oil companies for the huge prices they pay at the pump.
Tax makes up 65 per cent of the average forecourt bill the highest proportion of anywhere in Europe.
Mr King told Sun City: “We ask motorists who they blame for high fuel prices and they put the Government first.
“Duty is set to go up by another 3p to 4p per litre on January 1, but it’s already having a big effect on the economy. It’s vital the Government freezes duty or even cuts it. Record prices are driving motorists off the road.”
Shell once again insisted it hardly made a bean at the petrol pumps.
Three-quarters of the haul came from selling the crude oil pumped out of the ground around the world.
Chief exec Peter Voser also insisted the firm’s stonking results were good for Brits.
He said: “Our profits pay for Shell’s substantial investments in new energy projects.
“They ensure low-cost, reliable, energy supplies for our customers and create value for our shareholders.”
Experts said Shell was benefiting from its huge investment in new exploration projects in recent years.
One of the biggest boosts has come from controversial Tar Sands projects in Canada where crude lies just below the Earth’s surface.
Shell is also cashing in on the boom in gas with sales of liquefied natural gas up 12 per cent following the opening of a huge plant in Qatar.
Just hours after Shell unveiled its results, American rival EXXON went even better posting quarterly profits of an incredible £6.4billion.
Separately the European Commission sparked a row with the UK by calling for tougher safety laws in the North Sea. Brussels said the risk of a spill remained “unacceptably high”.
*from newspaper version of article
Royal Dutch Shell conspired directly with Hitler, financed the Nazi Party, was anti-Semitic and sold out its own Dutch Jewish employees to the Nazis. Shell had a close relationship with the Nazis during and after the reign of Sir Henri Deterding, an ardent Nazi, and the founder and decades long leader of the Royal Dutch Shell Group. His burial ceremony, which had all the trappings of a state funeral, was held at his private estate in Mecklenburg, Germany. The spectacle (photographs below) included a funeral procession led by a horse drawn funeral hearse with senior Nazis officials and senior Royal Dutch Shell directors in attendance, Nazi salutes at the graveside, swastika banners on display and wreaths and personal tributes from Adolf Hitler and Reichsmarschall, Hermann Goring. Deterding was an honored associate and supporter of Hitler and a personal friend of Goring.
Deterding was the guest of Hitler during a four day summit meeting at Berchtesgaden. Sir Henri and Hitler both had ambitions on Russian oil fields. Only an honored personal guest would be rewarded with a private four day meeting at Hitler’s mountain top retreat.
IN JULY 2007, MR BILL CAMPBELL (ABOVE, A RETIRED GROUP AUDITOR OF SHELL INTERNATIONAL SENT AN EMAIL TO EVERY UK MP AND MEMBER OF THE HOUSE OF LORDS: 
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A head-cut image of Alfred Donovan (now deceased) appears courtesy of The Wall Street Journal.
