They’ve been profitable for some time.

A lot of people say they’re profitable at $60/barrel, but it’s more like between $50 and $80, depending on a bunch different factors, such as location and extraction method.

But that’s only considering profitability in the terms of the current political system.

If a new system came along that factored in harms to the environment, global warming, etc., they could go back to being unprofitable.

I’m actually surprised people still heavily use Google search.

Not for some tech snob snark reason, but because it’s unusable.

I only ever go back to Google if I’m really desperate, and I can’t recall the last time it ever delivered me a result I considered useful.

It’s all SEO AI spam, and those are the web results Google returns only after all of its own AI and shopping bloat.

Completely useless.