Shell and Standard Oil have been engaged in manipulating governments for over a hundred years.
The joint self-explanatory letter Shell and Exxon sent to the US Securities & Exchange Commission on 1 May seems to have good intentions – concerning the timetable for implementation of transparency legislation – but the past track record of both oil giants brings to my mind, for more than one reason, the phrase “beware of Greeks bearing gifts.”
Suspicion as to their real motive is heightened by the following extract from a related Reuters article published today.