The six largest fossil fuel companies are projected to earn $94 billion in 2026, earning nearly $3,000 a second, $37 million a day more than last year, largely as a result of the Iran war and Strait of Hormuz disruption. Saudi Aramco posted a 25% rise in first quarter profit. Brent crude peaked above $126 a barrel during the conflict.
I wrote a piece that uses those numbers as the frame for a longer argument about gravity modification research and why it has been institutionally suppressed for decades. The financial incentive for that suppression is straightforward: a technology that reduces the energy cost of movement doesn’t just threaten the fuel pump the way electric vehicles do. It threatens the entire premise of fossil fuel dependency. The monopoly isn’t on fuel. It’s on movement itself.
The piece documents the pattern, defunded programs, classified researchers, career destruction, and connects it to Amy Eskridge, a Huntsville researcher who left detailed records of harassment and threats before her death was ruled suicide in 2022, and to the current cluster of aerospace officials who have disappeared or died.
It also covers what gravity modification would actually mean for energy poverty, food costs, and the geopolitical weight of petrostates – and what the transition away from oil would cost the countries and institutions currently profiting from the Iran crisis.
Sourced throughout including Oxfam’s 2026 profit analysis, Physical Review, and primary screenshots of Eskridge’s texts.
Source: morecowbell1988