#electricity

We were building a - what I thought was a fantastic company. We had great people. We were changing - we were changing the way the marketplace operated. We were creating a market for natural gas and electricity that had never existed before. ↗

— Jeffrey Skilling

#building #changing #company #creating #electricity

Cuts in carbon emissions would mean significantly higher electricity prices. We think the American consumer would prefer not to be skinned by Obama's EPA. ↗

— Fred Upton

#american consumer #carbon #consumer #cuts #electricity

She knew they were all afraid. But love and disease are both like electricity, Weetzie thought. They are always there -- you can't see or smell or hear, touch or taste them, but you know they are there like a current in the air. We can choose, Weetzie thought, we can choose to plug into the love current instead. ↗

— Francesca Lia Block

#electricity #love #love

Of all the failed technologies that litter the onward march of science - steam carriages, zeppelins, armoured trains - none has been so catastrophic to prosperity as the last century's attempt to generate electricity from nuclear fission. ↗

— James Buchan

#been #carriages #catastrophic #century #electricity

What is a soul? It's like electricity - we don't really know what it is, but it's a force that can light a room. ↗

— Ray Charles

#force #know #light #like #really

I did not come to Washington to raise the electricity rates by as much as $40 per month as this plan would do. ↗

— Greg Walden

#did #electricity #i #month #much

It is no secret that those of us in the Northwest believe the Administration's proposal to drive up the cost of electricity in our region is not only misguided, but also will not achieve the intended goal of raising money for the treasury. ↗

— Greg Walden

#administration #also #believe #cost #drive

Benjamin Franklin may have discovered electricity, but it was the man who invented the meter who made the money. ↗

— Earl Wilson

#benjamin franklin #discovered #electricity #franklin #invented

The air is dirty because of the electricity monopolists. They have powerful money lobbyists. ↗

— Sam Wyly

#because #dirty #electricity #lobbyists #money

Fibre optic is becoming like electricity. If you look at how electricity spread around the globe 100 years ago, that's what's happening now. ↗

— Reed Hastings

#ago #around #becoming #electricity #globe