1.0 link 84221 <![CDATA[Shell Posts "Obscene" Profit]]> http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2008/01/31/shell-posts-obscene-profi_n_84221.html Shell smashed all-time British company profit records today, posting 2007 earnings of $27.5billion (£13.9billion), and immediately ran into a storm with union leaders, who are demanding the Government hits the oil giant with a windfall tax.

Shell's profit surge - it is now making a staggering $75million (£38million) a day - on the back of a booming oil price that touched $100 a barrel this winter, was labelled as "obscene" by Tony Woodley of Unite, the UK's largest trade union, as...

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