July 27, 2017 12:23 PM EDT
The image of a driver slurping an iced latte while pulling a Mustang up to the drive-in window of a fast-food joint is either your idea of a capitalist apotheosis or civilization’s decadent demise.
Or … it’s what flashed through your mind as you listened to Royal Dutch Shell Plc’s earnings call on Thursday.
Jessica Uhl, Shell’s chief financial officer, at one point talked up the oil major’s marketing business:
We’re the world’s largest fuel retailer. Every day, Shell serves more than 30 million customers across our 43,000 sites in close to 80 countries. That is more sites than Starbucks; it is more than McDonald’s.
And you thought Shell was an oil company!
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