"This is just a money grab. Only the mafia could create an organization that would skim money off the top the way this legislation would skim money off the top."
-- Duke Energy CEO Jim Rogers, on the Lieberman-Warner climate bill
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Posted 3:35 PM on 3 Jun 2008
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Baby Boomer Posted 7:57 am
03 Jun 2008
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GreyFlcn Posted 9:28 am
03 Jun 2008
Rogers is one of several industry CEOs calling for regulations that put a price on polluting carbon dioxide and Duke Energy is a member of U.S. CAP (United States Climate Action Partnership), a consortium of large corporations trying to influence policy.
http://news.cnet.com/8301-11128_3-9917630-54.html
Does bring speculation USCAP is merely a bunch of companies that want to shape/cripple greenhouse legislation so that it come out to their particular benefit.
Rather than actually coming up with an effective bill.
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As for notable-quotables, I liked this one.
Rogers heads a company that generates 90 percent of its electricity from burning coal or nuclear power. So it's not surprising that he says that "coal is not a four-letter word!"
"Coal" actually is a four letter word :P
Great slogan though.
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guido Posted 2:51 am
04 Jun 2008
i have watched various debates with rogers in it. He gets his head handed to him in one case by another ceo in the industry.
i have been around quite a few ceos, i truly find it hard to believe that he is effective.
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