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£L>Jb.i/ i KIU KATES are already creeping upward because of higher fuel costs. When the expense of the stepped-up environmental cleanup is figured in, says David Freeman, until recently a White House adviser on energy policy, a 50% increase in rates over the next five years becomes a “real possibility.”
Electricity has been getting cheaper during most of this century. In fact, it is too cheap, because the price doesn’t include the cost of avoiding the environmental damage.
With a modest price increase, we might start to use electricity more intelligently. It’s possible right now to make a refrigerator that would cost one-eighth more to buy, but would consume only half as much electricity as a current model of the same size.
We need to revive the ancient practice of designing cities and buildings to take advantage of trees and prevailing breezes, if only to lessen the construction, on unshaded tracts, of low - ceilinged, poorly ventilated houses that require virtually continuous air-conditioning in the warm months.
IN MOST homes, higherpriced electricity would bring few real sacrifices. Some of my conservationist friends would like to ban “frivolous’’appliances such as electric carving knives and toothbrushes,
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