ILLUSTRATION: PAUL RYDING
If the oil companies had their way, you’d be bamboozled into thinking there were no such thing as oil companies. On their website homepages they style themselves ‘energy companies.’ Their headlines are all about ‘the energy transition’, ‘sustainability’ ‘decarbonisation targets’ and the like. You’ve got to dig two or three links deep to find any mention of ‘oil’, ‘gas’ or ‘petroleum’. Crikey, what have they got to be ashamed of?