chris warner with the competitive enterprise institute. chris, thanks for coming back to the show.to tell you what a shell spokesman said to local newspaper in response to that this is dutch harbor fisherman which i know you get every day and so do i. tax structure on these vessels of this type influenced the timing of our departure, what do you think?. >> until the statement made no longer operative because no industry is more subject to political whim or bureaucratic whim or scrutiny than no company within that industry than shell in the oil industry. tax policy is designed to incentivize behavior. often incertainty advises tax makers and payers don't like. not for french move movie stars or former vice president's selling networks to al-jazeera. you will drive people away. i'm sure it had part of the timing to pull out. they winter these things elsewhere. alaska is not hospitable environment. ed markey is running nomnation in liberal state. picking up green group nominations. that same day the league of conservation voters. i think more about that, than anything else. for him to

i'm meteorologist chris warner.urday, still lingering snowshowers around the great lakes. things are now quiet after a winter storm kahn has moved out of here. still showers lingering around throughout parts of arkansas, louisiana, southeast oklahoma and parts of northeast texas. meanwhile, this is the next weathermaker right here. what's going to be bringing the rain and the snow to the southwest. eventually moving right here potentially causing a bit of an icy situation by sunday. so for later on you have that cold air in place. these are the daytime highs today. 20s. that's going to be it. see how there's very cold air in place that. system here in the southwest now moves into the midwest. and where you have this purple color, that could be straight ice. dealing with freezing rain a possibility. north of that, we're looking at possibly some snow, maybe some sleet. so stay tuned to the weather channel all day sunday. see how this develops. could end up being a very dangerous situation. power outages a possibility

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