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- What should you do with an oil fortune? https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2023/08/14/what-should-you-do-with-an-oil-fortune 65 comments
- President Putin is rumored to be among the world’s wealthiest men, with an oil-fed fortune worth tens of billions of dollars. He denies that, vehemently, but a report to be published Tuesday suggests that the dispute may be beside the point. http://www.nytimes.com/2012/08/28/world/europe/for-russia-president-vladimir-putin-report-says-perks-are-piling-up.html 39 comments worldnews
- Oil Companies Are Making a Fortune From Soaring Prices. Congressional Democrats Want to Take Some of It Back https://newrepublic.com/article/165658/windfall-tax-whitehouse-khanna-common-wealth 31 comments politics
- Serbian president on immigrants: "They're becoming Serbia's problem, even though they shouldn't. They didn't start shooting in Africa because of us. We didn't take their ores and fortunes, we didn't bomb them, we didn't bring down their oil prices..." http://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?q=cache:WVEP-u3Zh7AJ:http://rs-lat.sputniknews.com/intervju/20150908/4442887.html 275 comments europe
- Oil’s Swift Fall Raises Fortunes of U.S. Abroad http://www.nytimes.com/2014/12/25/world/europe/oils-swift-fall-raises-fortunes-of-us-abroad.html 5 comments worldnews
- Oil’s Swift Fall Raises Fortunes of U.S. Abroad http://www.nytimes.com/2014/12/25/world/europe/oils-swift-fall-raises-fortunes-of-us-abroad.html?google_editors_picks=true&_r=0 6 comments worldnews
- How a Brazilian oil billionaire lost 99% of his fortune.. ouch http://business.financialpost.com/2013/07/26/how-a-brazillian-oil-billionaire-lost-99-of-his-fortune/?__lsa=23a9-bc33 5 comments stocks
- The Telegraph: ‘It’s guns versus butter’: Russia on the brink as Putin’s war chest empties. Kremlin’s fortunes crumble as oil profits plunge and the workforce flees conscription. https://archive.ph/2023.07.24-113431/https:/www.telegraph.co.uk/business/2023/07/24/russia-economy-putin-war-cost-oil-revenues/ 16 comments economy
- No, the Bidens didn’t invest their family fortune in Ukranian oil and gas https://www.politifact.com/factchecks/2021/jan/28/facebook-posts/no-bidens-didnt-invest-their-family-fortune-ukrani/ 40 comments politics
- Ahmedabad High Court calls out Adani Wilmar's Fortune Vivo oil's claim to diabetes care misleading https://the-ken.com/fortune-vivo-oil-sticky-end/ 4 comments india
- How A ‘Bunch Of Commies’ Are Forcing The Fortune 500 To Stop Destroying Rain Forests, Killing Too Many Fish, And Burning Coal and Oil http://www.businessinsider.com/greenpeace-fortune-500-deforestation-global-warming-2014-6?op=1 22 comments worldnews
- Big Oil makes up 3 of the top 5 spots in the 2011 Fortune 500 list: ExxonMobil, Chevron & ConocoPhillips! End big oil subsidies now! http://www.thestreet.com/story/11106846/1/wal-mart-tops-fortune-500-again.html 38 comments politics
- Whenever oil company profits have slipped below the Fortune 500 average, conflict has broken out in the Middle East [graph] http://you.presscue.com/node/977 3 comments politics
- Whenever oil company profits have slipped below the Fortune 500 average, conflict has broken out in the middle east [graph] http://you.presscue.com/node/337 39 comments politics
- The Killer CEOs of Big Oil | Their fortunes are the result of poisoning you, me, our children and grandchildren, every other living thing on Earth, and destroying the temperature stability of our atmosphere. https://www.commondreams.org/opinion/big-oil-climate-criminals 49 comments climate
- Akshay Kumar wears Rajiv Bhatia’s apron to cook for jawans in Fortune Oil’s latest brand film http://bestmediainfo.com/2017/11/akshay-kumar-wears-rajiv-bhatia-s-apron-to-cook-for-jawans-in-fortune-oil-s-latest-brand-film/ 45 comments india
- Boris Becker 'invested in Nigerian oil firms that plunged in value', before losing £100m fortune http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2017/07/17/boris-becker-invested-nigerian-oil-firms-plunged-value-losing/ 3 comments tennis
- Heirs to Rockefeller oil fortune divest from fossil fuels over climate change http://www.theguardian.com/environment/2014/sep/22/rockefeller-heirs-divest-fossil-fuels-climate-change 4 comments worldnews
- Rockefellers, Heirs to an Oil Fortune, Will Divest Charity From Fossil Fuels http://www.nytimes.com/2014/09/22/us/heirs-to-an-oil-fortune-join-the-divestment-drive.html?partner=rss&emc=rss&smid=tw-nytimes&_r=1&referrer= 9 comments politics
- Portugal indebted to Angola after economic reversal of fortune - The cash-strapped European nation is coming to terms with effects of heavy investment from its oil-rich former colony http://www.theguardian.com/world/2014/jun/03/portugal-economy-bailout-angola-invests 15 comments europe
- Oil’s plunge has decimated Harold Hamm’s fortune and now his ex-wife wants $300-million by Wednesday ‘just to get by’ http://business.financialpost.com/2014/12/31/oil-plunge-has-decimated-harold-hamms-fortune-and-now-his-ex-wife-wants-300-million-by-wednesday-just-to-get-by/?__lsa=d7f5-0ccf 7 comments nottheonion
- Icebergs of Fat, Oil, and Grease Are Growing in the Sewers Beneath Our Feet. Here's why. - Thanks to wasteful sanitation habits, so-called "fatbergs" have increased in recent yrs—costing taxpayers in cities around the world a small fortune. https://psmag.com/environment/teenage-mutant-ninja-fatbergs 33 comments worldnews
- The Rockefeller family, which made its fortune from oil, is to sell its investments in fossil fuels and put money into clean energy http://www.bbc.com/news/world-us-canada-29310475 2517 comments worldnews
- Billionaire Eike Batista's dreams crumble - Once listed as one of the top 10 wealthiest people in the world, in little over a year, he is thought to have lost almost his entire fortune. OGX, the huge oil exploration company he controlled, has sought protection from bankruptcy. http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-latin-america-24754636 17 comments worldnews
- Rockefeller Family Fund divests from fossil fuels, which built family's fortune | It will eliminate holdings of Exxon Mobil Corp, saying the oil company associated with the family fortune has misled the public about climate change risks http://www.smh.com.au/world/rockefeller-family-fund-divests-from-fossil-fuels-which-built-familys-fortune-20160324-gnqc69.html 483 comments worldnews
- "The Louisiana Department of Natural Resources spent millions of taxpayer dollars in phony environmental projects that earned a small cabal of lawyers, land owners and oil and gas companies an enormous fortune." http://theind.com/article-22863-atchafalaya-antics-alive-and-well.html 4 comments politics
- A wealthy oligarchy of donors is dominating the 2016 election "A quick scan down the list of the biggest donors shows that many of them would be affected by gov't policy under a new president — tycoons who have made their fortunes in private equity, hydraulic fracturing and oil field services, tech" https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/a-wealthy-oligarchy-of-donors-is-dominating-the-2016-election/2015/08/04/153879ee-3ad3-11e5-8e98-115a3cf7d7ae_story.html 51 comments politics
- REALLY? We're supposed to fall for this rightwing meme 'Obama's political fortunes tied to gas prices' now? He's intentionally suppressing domestic oil and gas production that will 'save us' along with the GOP? REALLY???? Get with the program people!!! http://strausnews.com/articles/2011/04/15/pike_county_courier/news/2.txt 4 comments politics
- Fortunately for civilians in Libya, they are an oil producing country and worthy of US and NATO military intervention. Victims in Bahrain, Darfur, Burma, Congo, and Ivory Coast must be jealous. http://wartard.blogspot.com/2011/03/lidya-cavalry-arrives.html 32 comments politics
- Clean energy will be—must be—the next big thing. And so this inventor has poured his fortune into a challenge far greater than finding new oil deposits: extracting energy from the ocean http://www.popsci.com/kalee-thompson/article/2008-09/burning-tide 2 comments science
- What Should You Do with an Oil Fortune? The Hunt family owns one of the largest private oil companies in the country. Leah Hunt-Hendrix funds social movements that want to end the use of fossil fuels. https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2023/08/14/what-should-you-do-with-an-oil-fortune 5 comments energy
- Kochland (2022) How Charles Koch has kept Koch Industries quietly operating in deepest secrecy, using fracking to double his fortune, how he violated environmental law and stole oil, and how the Koch brothers' political-influence apparatus crippled government action on climate change. [00:17:09] https://youtu.be/XRBsDockgAg 244 comments documentaries
- Prime Minister Imran Khan has made a huge announcement for Pakistanis, telling the countrymen about the probable discovery of Asia’s largest oil and gas reserves in Pakistani territory. Successful exploration can change the fortunes of the country, the premier informed a group of journalists. https://propakistani.pk/2019/03/25/asias-largest-oil-and-gas-reserves-found-near-karachi/ 29 comments pakistan
- Columbia University Professor : Don't make the mistake of thinking Trump doesn't know about climate change. He knows. People need to understand what's going on. The american Republican Party is funded by Charles Koch and David Koch. Two of the wealthiest oil fortunes in the United States. http://www.bloomberg.com/news/videos/2017-06-02/sachs-koch-brothers-behind-trump-s-climate-exit-video 30 comments worldnews
- Rockefeller family charity to withdraw all investments in fossil fuel companies. Started by John D Rockefeller – who made his fortune from oil – the fund singled out ExxonMobil, calling the world’s largest oil company ‘morally reprehensible’ http://www.theguardian.com/environment/2016/mar/23/rockefeller-fund-divestment-fossil-fuel-companies-oil-coal-climate-change 3 comments politics
- Heirs to an Oil Fortune Join the Divestment Movement: The family of John D. Rockefeller, whose legendary wealth was built on oil, plans to rid the $860 million Rockefeller Brothers Fund of investments in companies trading in nonrenewable energy. http://www.nytimes.com/2014/09/22/us/heirs-to-an-oil-fortune-join-the-divestment-drive.html?smid=re-share 55 comments business
- The secretive Koch family, the main supporters of the right-wing groups that orchestrated the Tea Party movement, made the family fortune working for the Bolsheviks in the 1920s/1930s, building refineries, training Communist engineers and laying down the foundation of Soviet oil infrastructure http://www.alternet.org/story/146504/ 19 comments politics