{"id":58256,"date":"2023-02-16T12:06:36","date_gmt":"2023-02-16T11:06:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.greenpeace.org\/international\/?p=58256"},"modified":"2025-07-02T09:36:33","modified_gmt":"2025-07-02T07:36:33","slug":"4-ways-fossil-fuel-companies-worsen-injustices-during-energy-crisis","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.greenpeace.org\/international\/story\/58256\/4-ways-fossil-fuel-companies-worsen-injustices-during-energy-crisis\/","title":{"rendered":"4 ways fossil fuel companies are worsening injustice during the energy crisis"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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Greenpeace Austria protested in front of the Austrian Ministry of Finance to demand a windfall tax – oil giant OMV alone would then have to pay 3 billion euros. Money for low-income households in the energy crisis and for the expansion of renewables.
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Since the very beginning of their existence, fossil fuel companies have been destroying the lives and livelihoods of whole communities, polluting and lying just so they could keep making profits.<\/p>\n\n

Today, against the background of the energy and cost-of-living crisis, the five major oil and gas companies, BP, ExxonMobil, Chevron, Shell and TotalEnergies together posted $200 billion in profits in 2022<\/a>, with some announcing their largest profits ever or in a very long time. Meanwhile, the living conditions of many households are degrading, as they struggle to pay their energy bills. Women, ethnic minorities, children, elderly, and disadvantaged communities all around the world are particularly impacted.<\/p>\n\n

The fossil fuel industry is built on colonialism and injustice. Today, fossil fuel companies and energy providers just keep exacerbating inequalities amongst customers, and this is how they do it:<\/p>\n\n

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