On 2007-12-12 15:26:30 +0000, "Man at B&Q" said:

On Dec 12, 8:30 am, Huge wrote:
On 2007-12-12, Andy Hall wrote:


- Shell and BP quietly selling off their alternative energy assets
because they can't be made to pay in less than geological time.

That one I didn't know...

Perhaps because it's not correct?

Headline in today's Torygraph "Shell plans to produce fuel from
algae", quote "The pilot project, announced yesterday, continues
Shell's efforts to develop new-generation fuels".

Not quite the same as "Shell and BP quietly selling off their
alternative energy assets because they can't be made to pay in less
than geological time", is it?

MBQ

Granted that anything printed in the Guardian is not worth the paper
it's written on.

However, you may wish to read through

http://www.guardian.co.uk/business/2007/dec/11/oil.bp

and to follow up the links to the sell offs plus the comments of Shell's CEO

Needless to say, both companies, like governments, speak out of both
sides of their mouths.