Oil giant BP has been slammed for raking in “astronomical” profits of £366 a second while households pay the price of the Iran war . BP’s profits more than doubled to almost £2.4billion in the first three months of this year on the back of a surge in the wholesale cost of oil. Given the conflict only erupted at the end of February, it suggests much of the surge came in the space of a few weeks. Yet while the company coins it in - with BP boss Meg O’Neill in line for a potential £13.7million