Utilities Quotes

“Remove God from the world of ideas. Remove government, politics from society. Keep sex, humor, utilities. Let private property go.”
― John Cage, M: Writings '67–'72

“Willfully polluting the ground with AC electricity is just another aspect of how the electrical utility companies will be remembered by the next generation.”
― Steven Magee, Electrical Forensics

“When Iran starts to regulate USA nuclear facilities, it will be a step in the right direction for the safety and security of 300 million people.”
― Steven Magee

“We live in a society where interacting with government agents is a
potentially hazardous activity”
― Steven Magee

“When I was commissioning a brand new solar photovoltaic utility site, I came across metal tubes installed into the fuseholders that were marked up as 100 amp fuses on the diagram. Needless to say, it had already gone on fire.”
― Steven Magee

“There were natural electrical currents running through the surface of the Earth until electrical utilities short circuited them with electrical ground rods.”
― Steven Magee

“It is unreasonable to expect unregulated scallywags to do the right thing.”
― Steven Magee

“The energy utilities are generally controlled by toxic managers.”
― Steven Magee

“Misery and death is what happens when incompetents run state utilities.”
― Steven Magee

“Privatisation of government-owned enterprises is crucial to the project [neoliberalism]. One of the appealing features of tax cuts for neoliberal governments is that reduced revenue provides them with an excuse to sell state assets to meet the sudden budget shortfalls. The sale of state assets creates more lucrative business opportunities for the corporations that can afford to buy such things as power stations, water treatment plants, telecommunications providers, government banks and airlines. It's something of a windfall for a business to acquire an asset that will always deliver a return so long as citizens still need things like water or power supplied to their homes, a bus to catch from one place to another, or a telephone connection. And - unlike a state-owned asset - a private corporation never has to adjust its services due to democratic prompting from the electorate. Why do power prices keep going up across Australia? Because most of the power supply is now owned and operated by private corporations. They're free to price gouge on the supply of an essential service, because they can't be voted out of office.”
― Sally McManus, On Fairness

“My time in Florida was an education in corporate and government corruption.”
― Steven Magee

“100% restored utilities in Florida does not really mean all!”
― Steven Magee

“The worst understaffed company I worked for was one of the largest electrical utility companies in the USA.”
― Steven Magee