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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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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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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I think it is very difficult, if not impossible, to foster truly competitive markets when you're dealing with energy.
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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.
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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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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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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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It shouldn't be a place where political favors are granted.
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GNEP cannot accomplish the administration's proliferation or waste management goals. The reprocessing technologies that DOE is currently researching are far from 'proliferation-resistant' and are decades from commercialization.
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We're asking for an investigation to determine whether the rates they are charging are illegal.
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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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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.