Representative Barton's legislation rolls out the red carpet for oil company profiteers who have intentionally reduced refining capacity to pump up profits to world record levels, ... Since deregulation in 1982, oil consumption has increased 33 percent, but oil companies have reduced refining capacity by about 10 percent. The answer is not more carrots for the industry, like gutting environmental laws and immunizing companies for the harm they cause, but sticks such as forcing companies to invest in beefing up refining capacity when it is needed. We need supply side regulation, not more supply side economics.
Quotes about profiteers (10 Quotes)
Not all those who are attempting to conduct successful businesses are profiteers
The Exception to the Rulers Exposing Oily Politicians, War Profiteers, and the Media That Love Them,
I believe in an America in which the fruits of productivity and prosperity are shared by all, by workers as well as owners, by those at the bottom as well as those at the top; an America in which the sacrifices required by national security are shared by all, by profiteers in the back offices as well as volunteers on the front lines.
Thank goodness Sen. Grassley is providing some adult supervision. It's not just the taxpayers who are harmed by the current Monopoly money mentality in Washington, D.C., but more directly the hurricane survivors themselves. Every penny spent should help the survivors instead of lining the pockets of disaster profiteers.
All defense contractors have public affairs departments. They know they appear to be war profiteers to the public. They want to tell you that the bombs they make make war safer for civilians.
It is scandalous that a small number of profiteers would once again hijack humanitarian food supplies destined for fellow Somalis,
What has the federal government been doing all these years to prepare for a disaster striking a major American city, ... With all the bureaucratic federal agencies, super czars and homeland preparedness, there seems to be no national or regional master plan to evacuate people, bring in relief and adequately deal with a large scale emergency of this nature. Is there a plan in place for how to deal with the profiteers when the resettling and rebuilding begins Is there a plan to freeze oil prices
There should be a special place in hell for the person who profiteers from that.
We need to make sure we have every tool in the toolbox to prohibit oil profiteers from taking advantage of this tragedy,