{"id":64152,"date":"2022-08-05T07:30:36","date_gmt":"2022-08-05T06:30:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/?p=64152"},"modified":"2022-08-05T07:30:36","modified_gmt":"2022-08-05T06:30:36","slug":"energy-company-profits-are-grotesque","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/2022\/08\/05\/energy-company-profits-are-grotesque\/","title":{"rendered":"Energy company profits are grotesque"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>From the UN General Secretary:<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"500\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">The combined profits of the largest energy companies in the first quarter of this year are close to $100 billion.<\/p>\n<p>This grotesque greed of the fossil fuel industry and their financiers is punishing the poorest and most vulnerable people, while destroying our only home.<\/p>\n<p>&mdash; Ant\u00f3nio Guterres (@antonioguterres) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/antonioguterres\/status\/1554997159182974979?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">August 4, 2022<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>There is not a great deal to add to that.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>From the UN General Secretary: The combined profits of the largest energy companies in the first quarter of this year are close to $100 billion.<br \/><a class=\"moretag\" href=\"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/2022\/08\/05\/energy-company-profits-are-grotesque\/\"><em> Read the full article&#8230;<\/em><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[64,14,35,108,106],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-64152","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-corporation-tax","category-corruption","category-economics","category-environment","category-politics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/64152","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=64152"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/64152\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=64152"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=64152"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=64152"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}