We fear that people are mistaking the size of our earnings for a windfall, not realizing the enormous levels of investments required to achieve those earnings and bring new energy supplies to the market.

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While we believe this is a very worthy program, we think it is a bad precedent to have private industry support a federally funded program.

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As an industry we feel it is not a good precedent to fund a government program.

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We did not, no.

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The trend toward consolidation is being driven by globalization, with mergers giving companies from all industries sufficient scale and a lower cost structure to enable them to compete in a global arena.

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We do not consider that a windfall.

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We think that's more a realm of the government.

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Obviously, the United States we don't need another hurricane, ... It certainly could have an impact on the production and the refineries that are up and running today and it certainly would have an impact on the recovery.

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