Tyson Slocum
Tyson Slocum
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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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I think it is very difficult, if not impossible, to foster truly competitive markets when you're dealing with energy.
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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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...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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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.
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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.