Tyson Slocum Companies Quotations

The fact that oil companies are enjoying record profits when consumers are paying record high prices does not sit well with people.

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.

Those are not investments that Exxon Mobil and the other oil companies are ever going to make.

Oil companies are exploiting a tight supply-demand situation. They are piling on, making a bad situation worse.

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.