Paying Too Much for Electricity.

Focuses on the retail electric rates in the U.S. Information that excessive price to domestic users for electric service is due to the high cost of distribution; Statement that the electrical industry do not know what it costs per kilowatt hour to distribute energy from a local switchboard or the step-down station at the end of a transmission line to houses, stores and streets; Claim of electric-service companies that they do not keep cost accounts on distribution by such methods as are employed in every phase of the steel, clothing, paper and other industries; Statement that in spite of the dramatic drop in electric costs during the last ten years, rates for the great majority of small consumers have remained practically stationary.