Sentence examples for windfall profit for from inspiring English sources

Be that as it may, the general expectation has been that NextWave will not attempt to use the licenses to provide wireless services, but instead will sell them and reap the windfall profit for itself.

It creates massive windfall profits for polluters.

First, high commodity prices yield windfall profits for the region's leading producers of raw materials.

The move is designed to eliminate windfall profits for electricity generators.

Every day that prices stay close to $40 a barrel is another day of windfall profits for the majors.

The moves were seized on by environmentalists and other critics who have previously criticised the European Union's ETS for delivering more windfall profits for business than climate change.

State officials say they are reluctant to sign long-term purchase contracts at relatively high prices that ensure windfall profits for producers.

The great bulk of that represents not an increased cost of production but windfall profits for a handful of generating companies.

"Whether this will mean windfall profits for insurers or rate cuts for the consumers is up to governors and state regulators to determine".

A similar approach, tried in the first so-called cap-and-trade program in Europe, led to windfall profits for some industries.

As recently as 2005, when windfall profits for energy companies prompted even President George W. Bush — a former Texas oilman himself — to publicly call for an end to incentives, the energy bill he and Congress enacted still included $2.6 billion in oil subsidies.