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As families worldwide struggle with soaring energy and food costs, finance ministers from the G7 are preparing to meet in Paris – yet resolving this affordability crisis is shockingly absent from their agenda. Taxing record fossil fuel company profits and ending their subsidies are solutions these leaders could implement overnight.

France holds the G7 Presidency, and French Finance Minister Roland Lescure sets the agenda for this meeting. He’s very active on social and pays close attention to his comments. This gives us a real opportunity to push him to add these critical solutions to the agenda — but the window is short.

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Energy bills are crushing people while fossil fuel companies post record profits. We need a permanent windfall tax on these profits. You’re meeting with the G7 soon – how about this gets added to the agenda?

Fossil fuel profits are soaring – G7 countries like France should put a higher, permanent tax on these windfalls to fund affordable energy and climate action. Will you add this to the G7 Finance Minister Meeting agenda?

Oil and gas giants are sitting on billions in windfall profits as families like mine struggle with energy costs. Will you make sure this on the agenda at the upcoming G7 finance meeting in Paris?

There’s a simple fix to our affordability crisis – permanent windfall taxes and ending fossil fuel subsidies. I don’t understand why you aren’t talking about this in with other G7 finance ministers?

The best solution to our affordability crisis is to replace fossil fuel subsidies with permanent windfall taxes on the OBSCENE profits made by companies like Total, Shell and Exxon.

Hello Mr Lescure, I heard that you are responsible for the upcoming G7 Finance Ministers meeting. Are you ensuring that the higher permanent taxation of fossil fuel companies is on the agenda?

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The Fiction of Low Cost: The notion that fossil fuels are cheaper is a fiction engineered over decades by an industry extracting wealth from households, public budgets, and the climate.
Subsidies Failing the Poor: Blanket fossil fuel subsidies are government handouts that deliver just US 8 cents of every US dollar to the poorest 20% of households, while the wealthy capture most of the benefit.
Renewables are Cheaper: Solar, wind, and battery storage are now cheaper than new fossil fuel generation in most markets.
Triple Payment by Households: Ordinary people pay for fossil fuels three times over: through taxes (subsidies), bills (fuel, food, and transport shocks), and mounting climate damages.
Permanent Affordability: To achieve permanent energy affordability and independence, we must channel subsidy savings into rooftop and balcony solar, electric vehicles, and energy cooperatives.

Massive Pocketed Gains: US oil producers alone are set to pocket an extra US$60–63 billion in windfall profits in 2026 from the current crisis—more than double what is needed to deliver electricity and clean cooking to all of Africa.
Siphoning Wealth: In the first 50 days of the war in South West Asia, over US$150 billion was siphoned from ordinary people to oil and gas companies due to soaring energy prices.
Permanent Policy: Governments should introduce permanent windfall taxes on fossil fuel companies and others who profit from fossil volatility.
Industry Positioning: The fossil fuel industry knows how to profit from the very crises it creates, positioning itself to capture gains precisely when everyone else struggles.
Collective International Action: Mandatory minimum fossil fuel taxes embedded in the UN Tax Convention are required to ensure no country has to bear the political and financial cost of acting alone.

BP Profits More Than Doubled: BP reported underlying profits of US$3.2 billion for Q1 2026, more than double the US$1.38 billion recorded in the same period the previous year, driven by what it termed “exceptional oil trading” linked to the conflict.
Shell’s Earnings: Shell recorded US$6.9 billion in adjusted earnings for the first quarter, surpassing analyst expectations and marking a 115% increase from the final quarter of 2025.
European Giants Reap Billions: Combined, the largest European oil majors (including Shell and BP) generated approximately US$22 billion in profits during the first three months of 2026 as global oil prices surged toward $120 a barrel.
Massive Wealth Transfer: In just the first 50 days of the conflict in the Middle East, over US$150 billion was siphoned from the global public to oil and gas companies due to war-driven price spikes.
Sector-Wide Windfalls: Beyond the supermajors, other industry players saw similar surges. For example, Equinor reported adjusted operating income of £7.19 billion for Q1, while UK-based Harbour Energy more than doubled its surplus cash projections for the year.

Sources:

Out of Pocket: How Fossil Fuels are Draining Households and Economies (350)

Middle East crisis could cost world $1tn while oil firms make ‘obscene’ profit, analysis finds (The Guardian)

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