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"Interestingly, the oil companies know very well that in less than 30 years they will not only be charging very high prices, but that they will be uncompetitive with renewables."
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"Liability does apply with respect to the amount of the oil spill."
"There are growing concerns that oil companies are making too much in profits at the expense of consumers."
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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."
"There'll be no oiling up with this band. The oil has been there for years and it only gets better."
"We can't allow multinational oil companies boasting of record profits to gouge consumers... We must do what we can to fix this problem."
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"It's not just a hurricane. It's the demand for gas in China... We're paying $3 a gallon, and the oil companies are making historic profits every quarter."
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"Good management is the art of making problems so interesting and their solutions so constructive that everyone wants to get to work and deal with them."
"We are now heading down a centuries-long path toward increasing the productivity of our natural capital - the resource systems upon which we depend to live - instead of our human capital."
"And also, more and more businesses really want to do the right thing. They feel better about themselves, their workers feel better, and so do their customers. I think this is equally true in the transnational corporations, but it is harder to express in those situations."
"We can no longer prosper by increasing human productivity. The more we try to do, the more poverty we will create."
"That inefficiency is masked because growth and progress are measured in money, and money does not give us information about ecological systems, it only gives information about financial systems."
"Businesses who are members of Businesses for Social Responsibility or the Social Venture Network are internalizing costs on a voluntary basis and therefore raising their costs of doing business, but their competitors are not required to."
"Information from destructive activities going back a hundred years right up until today is being incorporated into the system. And as that happens the underlying framework of industrialism is collapsing and causing disintegration."
"Local companies don't have to internalize their costs, and few actually do, but they tend to more often because the owners live there and they have to show their face in town, and their kids play with other kids."
"I think an old style of addressing environmental problems is ebbing, but the rise of the so-called conservative, political movement in this country is not a trend towards the future but a reaction to this very broad shift that we are undergoing."
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