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.
More Quotes from Tyson Slocum:
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.Tyson Slocum
Oil companies are exploiting a tight supply-demand situation. They are piling on, making a bad situation worse.
Tyson Slocum
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.
Tyson Slocum
Those are not investments that Exxon Mobil and the other oil companies are ever going to make.
Tyson Slocum
We're asking for an investigation to determine whether the rates they are charging are illegal.
Tyson Slocum
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.
Tyson Slocum
Readers Who Like This Quotation Also Like:
Based on Keywords: two-billionIt's about the power of design and the power of the human spirit. It's above paying anybody to do something stupid for money like reality television does - like ambushing people.
Genevieve Gorder
I love fast cars... and to go too fast in them.
Lara Flynn Boyle
The Millennium Stadium thing was for the Tsunami concert. It was a thing that I think every band in the country would have liked to be a part of at the time that it happened.
Kelly Jones