We will
take on oil companies and insurers to determine what caused the disaster and hold the responsible parties accountable.
This would make the tax system more honest; it would be a big deterrent against any future tax - rises; and it would add
pressure on the oil companies to be fair.
Gordon Brown increased the taxes
on oil companies by 10 % after the last GE and said that that would be the last increase in this parliament.
The Gulf oil spill has added fresh urgency to the issue, and the bill could raise the liability
caps on oil companies and impose stricter rules on offshore drilling.
Alaska, which pays dividends to its citizens from royalties
imposed on oil companies, could provide inspiration (just as Romneycare in Massachusetts pointed the way to Obamacare).
The
assets on oil companies» balance sheets, which are factored into the companies» share prices, include reserves they may one day have to write off, given global political commitments to cap emissions, trends toward energy efficiency, popular climate change outcry, and a glut of energy supply.
With a fuel duty rise due this summer and the possibility of strikes by fuel tanker drivers, it will be interesting to measure the
impact on the oil companies and whether BP and Shell can ensure that any blame attached is shared around equally, rather than disproportionately focused on them.
They get pinged by BB guns in Lombard and by golf balls on the Glen Ellyn Village Links, and they «re in the habit of stopping
Camaros on an oil company test track in Naperville.
«The government should impose
fines on oil companies for breach of regulations over the past 10 years and take measures to punish the companies.
The administration has identified one new revenue stream that would levy a
fee on oil companies to pay for infrastructure investments.
Do - it - yourselfers who don't want to
depend on the oil companies have gone to elaborate lengths to run their old cars on biofuels, often by processing used vegetable oil salvaged from restaurant deep fryers and storing the result in a tank in the garage.
Red Water (August 17; 8 to 10 p.m.; TBS), with Lou Diamond Phillips as a Louisiana riverboat captain and Kristy Swanson as his scientist ex-wife, seems about to blame some of the carnage that occurs in this
movie on an oil company as well as a bull shark, but then retreats to blaming Coolio and a gang of treasure - hunting cutthroats.
In 1979, Toyota entered into a collaboration with Exxon to work
together on the oil company's novel gas - electric hybrid drive system.
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When will the Government explain properly the discrepancy of approximately $ 770 million between data filed at the Ministry of Petroleum and the Ministry of
Finance on oil company tax payments in 2000?
And we have to have an international collective effort to remove these islands from our oceans along with international
pressure on oil companies to clean up their mess in other parts of the world not just the Gulf.
The bill is likely to be a broad collection of provisions, including some in response to the gulf spill that would increase the liability
caps on oil companies and impose tougher environmental and safety rules on offshore drilling.
The Chavez approach — to raise
taxes on oil companies and use a spike in energy prices to fund literacy and health programmes for the poor — prompted a hostile reaction from the Bush administration.
Tax cuts for ordinary families should be funded through a windfall tax
on oil companies, Derek Simpson, the joint general secretary of Unite said today.
The chief secretary to the Treasury says he will put pressure
on oil companies to pass on more of the oil price drop to consumers at the pumps
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on oil companies to clean up their mess in other parts of the world not just the -LSB-...]
In March, Standard & Poor's and Carbon Tracker launched a rating service report (PDF)
on oil companies» «creditworthiness,» which called for a fundamental shift in how financial models are built for these companies: «The latest and widely accepted scientific research on climate change suggests the future can not resemble the past.
«Imagine if I could get ten or 15 cities to all sue and put the same pressure
on the oil companies that we did with tobacco companies and create some kind of massive settlement,» he said.