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		<title>Rant: Exxon and Shell &#8211; taking greed to a new level</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 02 Feb 2006 02:42:00 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Oil Company profiteering reaches new levels
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<p>Not content with the already obscene level of profit made in recent years, oil Leviathans <a href="http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/business/4672716.stm" target="_blank">Shell</a> and <a href="http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/business/4662474.stm" target="_blank">Exxon</a> have both reported record profits &#8211; Shell&#8217;s profits setting a new all-time corporate profit record in the UK and Exxons in the WORLD!</p>
<p>And all this in a week where scientists around the world have issued a <a href="http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/sci/tech/4660938.stm" target="_blank">Stark warning</a> about climate change and  <a href="http://cnn.netscape.cnn.com/news/story.jsp?id=2006012416040002223641&amp;dt=20060124160400&amp;w=RTR&amp;coview=" target="_blank">NASA notes that 2005 was the hottest year on record for our warming planet.</a></p>
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