Tyson Slocum
Tyson Slocum
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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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I think it is very difficult, if not impossible, to foster truly competitive markets when you're dealing with energy.
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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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Oil companies are exploiting a tight supply-demand situation. They are piling on, making a bad situation worse.
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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.