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BP profits more than double as Iran war sends oil prices higher
- aksss 6mo agoGood for California's budget as well.
- trackone 6mo agoIs this due to CA's high gas tax? That is a fixed value per gallon, so higher gas prices will not affect this right?
- aksss 6mo ago$0.60 + 2.25%. The excise tax is a fixed .60+ per gallon, going up July 1. The sales tax is 2.25%, and local sales tax some additional percentage.
- GardenLetter27 6mo agoAnd all the oil companies - CRC and Chevron are huge.
- notepad0x90 6mo agonominative determinism but for companies? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anglo-Persian_Oil_Company https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anglo-Persian_Oil_Company
- tshaddox 6mo agoI don't think it's nominative determinism when the entity's name is determined by an attribute of the entity.
- notepad0x90 6mo agothat's not what I meant, I meant how their actions and involvement keeps drawing them back to the origin of their name, thus their name having a deterministic effect on their fate.