By Jake JOHNSON
"We're running out of words to describe the obscenity of these numbers."
The London-based oil behemoth Shell reported Thursday that its net profit more than doubled in the second quarter of this year compared to the same period in 2025 as the Iran war pushed up energy prices, causing pain for consumers in the United Kingdom and around the world.
"These profits have been built on an energy crisis that's left households across the country struggling with high energy bills at home and expensive fuel at the pumps," Danny Gross, energy campaigner at Friends of the Earth UK, said in a statement.