On Sat, 05 Nov 2011 19:28:42 -0400, Home Guy wrote:

" wrote:

DTE is shooting themselves in the foot. The lights give them
revenue when they're operating. While their customer (Highland
park) can't pay them *RIGHT NOW* to juice up the lights, by
removing the lights DTE is insuring that they will get NO REVENUE
when Highland park will be in a position in the future to afford
to turn them back on.

Or more revenue as DTE charges them for all that installation.

Prezactly. *IF*

No.

DTE is not in the business of installing lights. I'm sure they'd much
rather sell the electricity like they've been doing for how many dozen
years. And remember that just like they did when they pulled them down,
they'd simply contract out the job to someone else.

You don't think they make a profit installing lights?

By taking down the equipment, they've added an unncessary complication
for Highland Park city hall were they to decide to have the lights back
up and working again. The added cost to re-install the lights (unless
absorbed by DTE over many years) will only postpone any decision to turn
them on again. This is still a stupid decision on the part of DTE -
unless the money saved in lower insurance costs makes up the difference
over 5 or 10 years.

I guess you know more than the management of DTE. Maybe you should send your
resume over...