#oil companies

If oil companies were to invest their high profits into alternative fuel research it will help America move toward new forms of energy. ↗

— Rick Renzi

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Five years of Republicans' failed energy policies have resulted in Americans paying twice as much at the pump as they did in 2001, while big oil companies make triple the profits. ↗

— Russ Carnahan

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But eventually it's a question of access: Getting access to fields is on top of the oil companies' agenda. We see a substantial build-up of supply occurring over the coming years. ↗

— Daniel Yergin

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Unlike my opponent, I will not let oil companies write this country's energy plan, or endanger our coastlines, or collect another $4 billion in corporate welfare from our taxpayers. ↗

— Barack Obama

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All told, these profit levels have put the world's five largest publicly traded oil companies on track to earn more than $100 billion before year's end. Yet, at the same time that Big Oil's bottom line is going up, so are Americans' energy costs. ↗

— Allyson Schwartz

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We can't allow multinational oil companies boasting of record profits to gouge consumers... We must do what we can to fix this problem. ↗

— Stephanie Herseth

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So when you go up against the Far Right you go up against the big financial special interests like the Halliburtons of the world, the big oil companies, the big energy companies who work so hard to rip us off. ↗

— Barbara Boxer

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There are going to be questions about what major oil companies are doing with all of the resources they're accumulating. They can't escape that. ↗

— Pete Domenici

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There are growing concerns that oil companies are making too much in profits at the expense of consumers. ↗

— Pete Domenici

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There are signs that the age of petroleum has passed its zenith. Adjusted for inflation, a barrel of crude oil now sells for three times its long-run average. The large western oil companies, which cartellised the industry for much of the 20th century, are now selling more oil than they find, and are thus in the throes of liquidation. ↗

— James Buchan

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