Tyson Slocum
Tyson Slocum
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Oil companies are exploiting a tight supply-demand situation. They are piling on, making a bad situation worse.
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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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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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Under deregulation, it becomes much easier for these utility companies to claim that this is what our estimated taxes are and we need to recoup these costs. And then they engage in all kinds of tax liability schemes that wind up reducing what they actually owe.
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America's natural gas companies have been fined over two-billion dollars in the last three years for manipulating natural gas markets. This clearly shows that we do not have an adequate regulatory framework over natural gas markets, and we feel there is market manipulation continuing today in the United States.
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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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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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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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This is pure window-dressing, so the administration can get some new stories out there without offering any solutions that will offend (the Republican party's) biggest contributor -- the oil industry.
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You wouldn't want that person on the commission at all.
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The state thought it would be a great idea. It no longer protected consumers.
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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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It shouldn't be a place where political favors are granted.
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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.