Rogers: cap-and-trade without corporate giveaways like ‘mafia’

“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

“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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