Largest US Oil & Gas Companies' Third Quarter 2021 Pretax Earnings Increased By 515% From the Third Quarter 2020. Their Total Pretax Earnings Improvement For the First Nine Months of 2021 Was a Staggering $169 Bil From the Prior Year Period. These US Oil & Gas Companies Must Be Elated With the US Government Being Under Total Democratic Control in 2021.

From a review of company filings with the SEC, the Google Finance website and the finviz stock screener website, there were 29 US Oil & Gas Companies with stock market caps above $10 bil very recently.

The table below shows the gold-standard US GAAP Pretax Income (Loss) From Continuing Operations for the third quarters of 2021 and 2020 and for the first nine months of 2021 and 2020 for each of these 29 US Oil & Gas Companies.

Three Largest US Vehicle Leasing Companies (Ford, Honda and GM) Paid Only $459 Mil in US Federal Income Taxes on $19.444 Bil of US Pretax Income For an Effective Tax Rate of Only 2.4% in the Most Recent Four Years Combined

 From a review of their US Finance Subsidiaries' Income Tax and Segment Information footnotes included in their audited 10-K annual financial statement filings with the US SEC for each of the most recent four fiscal years (2017 through 2020), the chart below shows US Federal Current Income Tax Expense (Refunds) and the related US Pretax Income of each of the three most profitable US Vehicle Leasing Companies.