Electricity

OR at least two decades electricity has been a transcendent public issue, regardless of prevailing political or economic philosophy. Why is it that American people have been and continue to be so intensely concerned about electricity? There are some leaders of great power companies who are completely at a loss to understand why this issue remains so persistently in public mind. About ten years ago I heard Mr. Martin J. Insull discuss this matter over radio. Why, said Mr. Insull in substance, the average person pays only a few cents a day as his electricity bill. Then why all public fuss about electricity? The issue is not a real one, and would expire but for a few men who keep it alive for political purposes. And there have been other utility executives, equally bewildered by persistence of public interest in power, who have used same argument about how little average person pays for electricity

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