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Editor:
It is gratifying to see the Vice President of Vepco step off the parnassus for a minute to try to talk to the readers of the Virginian and the Rappahannock News. Since he seems solicitious of us, lets grab the opportunity and ask if Vepco would also consider charging us the same rates it charges its big, commercial and industrial customers.
May I quote from the June 12, 1972 Time magazine? “In Virginia, the average industrial user pays 1(5 per kilowatt hour for buying in bulk, the residential user pays 2£, and the very small user, i.e. the poor, pays 3£.”
In an interview with a Washington, D. C. newspaper, this same Vice President of Vepco shed “crocodile tears” for the poor who would have to pay for underground transmission lines through higher rates for their electricity. Well, how much higher? 10%, 20%, 50%? Mr. Vepco did not say. It’s better to keep quiet when you already charge the homeowner 200% more and the poor 300% more than you do the big corporations.
Now, back to the proposed 500,000-Volt transmission'Tine and the surveyors.
When called upon to corroborate a statement of Vepco attorney Moynahan, a Vepco employe purjured himself in court — we believe. He stated under oath that Vepco did not propose to run the controversial line through the property
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