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Paying Too Much for Electricity.
- Source :
- New Republic; 12/21/32, Vol. 73 Issue 942, p150-152, 3p
- Publication Year :
- 1932
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Abstract
- 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.
Details
- Language :
- English
- ISSN :
- 00286583
- Volume :
- 73
- Issue :
- 942
- Database :
- Complementary Index
- Journal :
- New Republic
- Publication Type :
- Periodical
- Accession number :
- 15006610