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What Electricity Should Cost.

Authors :
Cooke, Morris Llewellyn
Source :
New Republic; 5/1/35, Vol. 82 Issue 1065, p330-332, 3p
Publication Year :
1935

Abstract

Focuses on the issues concerning standardization of electric rate schedules. Information that there are around 12,000 different kinds of monthly bills, a majority of which are not only unintelligible but fluctuate violently in price for the same amount of current served under like conditions; Proposal of a domestic rate schedule which would combine the three essential elements of reduction, uniformity and simplicity; Distrust among the public by the startling disparities and absurdities revealed by the recent preliminary report of the Rate Survey of the Federal Power Commission; Focus on the need for a standard domestic rate in the report of the Federal Power Commission; Belief that the public plant is the only method by which low rates and abundant use can be achieved.

Details

Language :
English
ISSN :
00286583
Volume :
82
Issue :
1065
Database :
Complementary Index
Journal :
New Republic
Publication Type :
Periodical
Accession number :
15389768