Oil companies like Exxon Mobil deliberately do not increase production to keep prices and profits high, Biden said
US President Joe Biden has said oil companies are cutting back on production to keep prices and profits high.
Oil companies such as Exxon Mobil deliberately do not increase production to keep prices and profits high, Biden said.
“Exxon has earned so much money that it’s gone to God and it’s outgrown it this quarter,” Biden joked, again accusing the US oil giant of not increasing oil production, which could cut prices, only to increases its profits.
“I want to say something about the oil companies, we have 9,000 drilling licenses. They do not drill,” he said in a speech on inflation from the port of Los Angeles, California.
“Why don’t they drill? Why do they make more money when they don’t produce more,” Biden said, adding that “they (the oil companies) are buying their own shares – something that, frankly, should be conditional.” – and do not make any new investment “.
“Nothing has changed and they are not obeying the law,” he added.
“I always thought the Republicans were in favor of investing. Exxon, start investing and paying your taxes,” he said.
ExxonMobil pumped less oil and gas in the first quarter of 2022 due to bad weather, maintenance work and the sale of activities, the group assures.
However, the company took advantage of the rise in the price of crude oil, which greatly increased its turnover, to double its net profit, despite a loss in connection with its withdrawal from Russia.
