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Tyson Slocum
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We're asking for an investigation to determine whether the rates they are charging are illegal.
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We don't think these large mergers are good for consumers. They put more utilities in fewer and fewer hands, increasing the likelihood of complex financial structures that will be less transparent and undermining the ability of state regulators to protect consumers.
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The state thought it would be a great idea. It no longer protected consumers.
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Those are not investments that Exxon Mobil and the other oil companies are ever going to make.
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I am against tying the merger to the rate deal. It is not doing anything to address the underlying, systemic problems in Maryland's utility market.
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Noble has made a billion dollars in profits since 2000, but it doesn't pay its fair share in taxes. Taxpayers are being gouged at both ends of this deal. Noble is getting rich off high energy prices, while the Department of Energy is giving away taxpayers' hard-earned dollars in the form of an unnecessary grant.
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It shouldn't be a place where political favors are granted.
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They are making out like bandits right now, at a time when I'm not sure that the economy can sustain these high prices.
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The fact that oil companies are enjoying record profits when consumers are paying record high prices does not sit well with people.
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What we're saying is, look, there's an easy way to pay for it: the oil companies. They've got record cash flows, record profits. Impose a new tax on them, use the revenues to dedicate to these programs.
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They transferred their coal plants to Constellation, so they are no longer regulated by the state of Maryland. It's the primary cause of the rate hike.
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...Almost playing a poker game with crude oil prices, making a series of bets about where prices are going to be going. That speculation is really what is driving prices up.
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You wouldn't want that person on the commission at all.
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There's a lot of geographic concentration of power. All these folks are from Texas -- a big energy-producing state. It shows where the influence is.