This nation needs to invest billions in its power grid, yet given recent history, it's crucial that this investment not be simply another occasion for energy-industry profiteering.
We can't allow ourselves to be pawns in the gun industry's profiteering.
"Dean Hubbard is a mercenary," says John P. Freeman, emeritus professor of business and professional ethics at the University of South Carolina School of Law, who has accused the mutual fund industry of profiteering, "out to protect fund managers who are taking advantage of investors".
The perception that the drug industry is profiteering at the expense of the American consumer has given pharmaceutical firms a reputation on a par with that of cigarette manufacturers.
We saw the president break a promise and go out of his way to stop legislation so as to protect the drug industry's profiteering price cartel.
In a fourth, separate case, the court convicted a former minister of trade and industry, Rachid Mohamed Rachid, of profiteering and the misuse of public funds totaling more than $2 million.
"These are not the figures associated with an industry that is profiteering or uncompetitive, and despite this challenging financial climate, RWE still managed to invest over £1bn into new, more efficient energy infrastructure for the UK in each of the last three years," he argued.
I'm tired of being demonized as a profiteering industry that preys on the poor.
Corporatist advocates of "free-market" health care see no contradiction in a health care model built around for-profit commercial insurance middlemen and the profiteering pharmaceutical industry, both subsidized by hundreds of billions of taxpayer dollars annually.
The reason for high health care costs, they say, is not insurance industry or drug company profiteering, it's "over utilization" of medical care.
The big six energy firms have been exposed to further accusations of profiteering after the industry regulator revealed that profits per customer last year rose by 77%.
