sentences:  Calls were made for a windfall tax on energy companies during the summer of 2008 in the wake of energy price rises and the environmental record of the oil and gas industry.120 Labour MPs supported the call, as well as columnist for "The Guardian" Polly Toynbee and the left-wing pressure group Compass.There were conflicting reports in the media over whether the government was looking into implementing the tax, with suggestions that government ministers were both interested in and opposed to the idea.