The confiscated windfall profits would fund tax credits for fuel-efficient cars and grants for mass transit.
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He has also proposed several increases in corporate taxes, including a "windfall profits" tax on oil.
Obama said a windfall profits tax would ease the burden of energy costs on working families.
Barack Obama, supports the repeal of oil company tax breaks and a windfall profits tax.
Not only did the peg hold, but the government made windfall profits when share prices recovered.
Not only did the peg hold, but the government made windfall profits when share prices subsequently recovered.
By offering investors some windfall profits, the firm hopes they will be more likely to ratify its plan.
Something more punitive is likely as well, for instance a windfall profits tax on oil, and maybe other industries.
Interestingly, the deal would provide windfall profits for billionaire investor Carl Icahn.
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Many venture capitalists and investment bankers see a carbon-trading regime and massive subsidies for renewable energy as a potential source of windfall profits.
He wants a windfall profits tax on oil, to go along with the new taxes he also plans for coal and natural gas.
McCain argues that a windfall profits tax will only increase the country's dependence on foreign oil and be an obstacle to domestic exploration.
The U.S. Congress is full of proposals to tax windfall profits.
Europe gave them away, which allowed polluters to make windfall profits.
Obama's plan for relief includes putting a windfall profits tax on oil companies, using the proceeds to help Pennsylvania families pay their heating and cooling bills.
He said Cheney wanted international oil production down to create windfall profits for U.S. oil companies, which, in turn would generate more business for his company.
Six months later Ecuadorians elected Correa, who, among other things, has busied himself trying to vacuum up the "windfall profits" of the remaining private oil operations.
The dollar's weaker every year, so we've got these windfall profits from getting paid in, you know, Brazilian real and Australian dollars and then South Korean won.
"What Obama says ... is not what he does, " begins the announcer, as a clip plays of Obama denouncing windfall profits for executives of financially troubled institutions.
The Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee is encouraging candidates to go beyond talk of price gouging and windfall profits and talk about reform that would reduce dependence on foreign oil.
Unless we assume that entrepreneurs are crazy, the fact that the probability of windfall profits is vanishingly small for the vast majority of ventures only adds to this argument.
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The National Institute of Health spends billions of dollars a year doing the most risky initial research to develop blockbuster drugs that companies patent and sell for windfall profits.
Last month, he said a government-appointed committee had made preliminary recommendations to abolish tax breaks for energy firms and impose steep tax increases of 20% to 60% on windfall profits.
In the short term it limited supply of popular Japanese-built vehicles, which resulted in windfall profits for the dealers of the top imports, helping those brands establish very strong dealer networks.
The windfall profits of oil companies in recent months are derivative largely from their overseas investment - the North Sea, as far as BP is concerned, only accounts for 10% of its profits.
On the Senate's legislative calendar this week is a bill to repeal tax incentives for oil companies, punish companies for reaping "windfall profits" and subject the Organization for Petroleum Exporting Countries to U.S. anti-trust law.
Indeed, thanks to foreign investment and windfall profits from higher oil prices, a stabilisation fund set up by the government to cushion the country were the economy to sour has grown much more quickly than expected.
The government will find it easier to plump for Ms Barker's less controversial recommendations, such as a windfall profits tax on land developers, encouraging greater competition among housebuilders and dealing with the skills shortage in construction.
Instead, the U.S. government should insist that Moscow use some of the billions in hard currency windfall profits it is accruing from the sharp increase in world oil prices to assist the fledgling democracies in Eastern Europe.
We need a president who understands that we can't solve the problems of global warming by giving windfall profits to the oil companies while ignoring opportunities to invest in the new technologies that will build a green economy.
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