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James Traficant: “home heating fuel costs have doubled. The companies blame OPEC and the bitter winter. Now if that is not enough to…”

On the recordFebruary 13, 2001
home heating fuel costs have doubled. The companies blame OPEC and the bitter winter. Now if that is not enough to insulate your BVDs, these same companies are now saying, and I quote, they are losing money. Beam me up. I say it is time to impose a $100 million fine on this bunch of bric-a-bracin, ratchet-fratchet nincompoops who have a license to steal and are stealing from our constituents. I yield back all of the gas of the beer drinkers association as an in-kind contribution to all of these poor, unprofitable, crying energy companies.
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James Traficant
Ohio
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Discussing rising home heating fuel costs and criticizing energy companies during a floor speech.

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