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ing an me way oacn. iu candles. We all like the living standard that electric lights and motors make possible. Furthermore, we can look forward to the increased use of electricity in some very important environmental tasks — grinding up old cars for recycling, powering new rapid transit systems, and lighting dark streets to deter muggers. But if we must consume more electricity for essential purposes, we have a special obligation to make each kilowatt-hour as nonpolluting as we can.
Unfortunately, only one electric power company, New York City’s Con Edison with its “Save a Watt” buttons, has joined the war on electrical waste. The ¥est of the utility industry is still encouraging prodigality, at least in the sense of doing little to discourage it. Most utility executives come from an earlier era. .“When 1 joined the industry,” says Chairman Charles F. Luce of 06n Edison, who has reservations about unlimited growth, “our faith was that the best society used the most electric energy per capita.”
I FIND myself doubting
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