Jamie Court Quotations

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,

Without regulation of oil refiners, oil companies can use new tax breaks to create new product that they simply export to drive up prices in the U.S. once again, ... This industry needs a regulatory stick if it is to increase refining capacity and sell the product in the United States of America.

is a way special interests have found to get lawmakers to do what they want.

intentionally reduced refining capacity to pump up profits to world-record levels.

They are supposed to compete and bring the lowest price to consumers. But the truth is that a small number of oil companies cheat by working together by artificially reducing supplies.

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.

If I came to my job and a third of the time didn't do what I was supposed to, I wouldn't have a job,

They're getting us going and coming, and it's going to be an ugly summer.

This is a staggering profit and proof that we are being gouged by the oil industry.

Senators have wanted to have it both ways.