John Felmy
John Felmy
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I think most people would agree that two-thirds of the economic slowdown we've seen is due to higher energy prices, ... And with higher energy prices, consumers will either have to reduce savings rates ... or reduce consumption.
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We're feeling (the crunch) now, but the U.S. has been in this situation for the last five years because of a lack of energy policy, and we need to develop one now,
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When you start intervening in a market, it starts you down a slippery slope of price controls, marketing manipulation and -- ultimately -- the bad energy policy that we suffered through in the 1970s.
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This is unfortunate rhetoric from politicians. We're a cyclical industry, earning a fair rate of return for everything we have to do to meet our energy needs, all the money we have to invest, all risk we have to take.
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The first thing we need to do in response to these climbing prices is get our house in order. The U.S. needs legislation that addresses our energy problems, provides incentives for alternative energy, improves energy infrastructure, maximizes domestic resources and addresses the fact that the energy crisis we face now isn't going away.
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Right now, the short-term markets are going a little crazy. If there is little damage, they can reverse themselves.
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Eventually, if you don't fill up, we run out of storage room and that creates a supply backlog,
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We are an industry already doing a lot. ... We're already investing vast amounts.
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There's no windfall. That's the fundamental problem with that argument.
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That would be the stupidest thing on Earth we could do. It would throw us back into the 1970s.
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What you have is an important set of steps in terms of these are high-temperature, high-pressure facilities. And that's if you have not had any damage, and we know from preliminary reports that's not the case.
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nobody wants to be the villain in the story.
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We've had some good signs, we'll just keep working at it.
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The reasons for high gasoline prices are very clear: the high cost of crude and the high cost of manufacturing gasoline. The idea that this is some sort of conspiracy is very unfortunate.