Demand Management Quotes

In the past, I had the marketing know how to get people to talk about my products, but I didn't have the infrastructure or logistics to fulfill the demand properly.

Monetary policy cannot do much about long-run growth, all we can try to do is to try to smooth out periods where the economy is depressed because of lack of demand.

The government cannot do everything all at once. It can't wave a magic wand and meet everyone's demands simultaneously.

THE INDUSTRIAL SYSTEM requires that prices be under effective control. And it seeks the greatest possible influence over what buyers take at the established prices.

We want a national emissions trading scheme, the Government does not and has rejected one for years. We want to boost the mandatory renewable energies target, the Government has failed to do that. We want a national demand side management strategy for the country to reduce electricity consumption and the Government, up until now, has done very little on that score.

We often take for granted that our lights will come on when we flip the light switch, but the reality is that our reliability standards and the current state of the transmission grid leave us all vulnerable to blackouts.

Why? Because we're very well down this process as it is - flawed as it is - and we're counting on getting more power plants on line by the end of 2003 so we have a surplus of power.

Capitalism does millions of things better than the alternatives. It balances supply and demand in an elegant way that central planning has never come close to.

To avoid a blackout, electricity generating companies must lower generation in line with low demand.

The human capital of most macroeconomists, heavily invested in demand management, was wiped out by the policy failures of the 1970s.

As much as I'd love to give everybody a really cheap option, it's just simply not possible in certain sorts of extreme events... I guarantee that our strategy on surge pricing is the optimal way to get as many people home as possible.

There is a state that is able to understand the demand in the economy. That state should use prices as an instrument for implementation of this understanding.

Ever since September 11, I've been quite conservative in what we've ordered. We've never really been supply-demand anyway.

We can't cure a shortage by increasing the supply.

We have to think creatively about changes that need to be made in the workplace to accommodate the growing demands on the work force.

Keynesian economics has always been needed.

Our real focus is going to be what can we do with our existing capacities, what new things can we do, and how much more demand can we fulfil with our existing capacities.

You want supply to always be full, and you use price to basically either bring more supply on or get more supply off, or get more demand in the system or get some demand out.

We will support anything to stabilize the oil demand and supply.

In our business we don't mind if a price of a ticket goes down; our job is to get as many bums in seats as possible.

It is our duty as states, citizens, and industry leaders to make the energy transition a reality with the ultimate aim of reconciling two major priorities: to meet ever-increasing demand and to confront the complex issue of climate change.

Surge pricing only kicks in in order to maximize the number of trips that happen and therefore reduce the number of people that are stranded.

Production is the only answer to inflation.

I do believe that oil production globally has peaked at 85 million barrels. And I've been very vocal about it. And what happens? The demand continues to rise. The only way you can possibly kill demand is with price. So the price of oil, gasoline, has to go up to kill the demand. Otherwise, keep the price down, the demand rises.

Very often, state utilities do not buy electricity even if they need it, as every unit purchased increases their losses.