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pay more and more in any case, even with a wracked countryside.
Once again, we have a specious argument—that we should think of money, not land or -beauty, and that, money will be saved if only we let VEPCO proceed; second, rates will be held down.
THE silliness of this contention again is shown by plain facts. Vepco just two weeks ago applied for yet another rate increase, one that would add $1.44 in winter and $1.74 in summer to the bills of typical householders. Reduced electricity usage was one of the prime reasons given by President Moore, in Vepco’s application, for the need for the rate hike.
The new request for higher rates followed SCC approval just last December of a 4.6 per cent increase and even more important, SCC approval of a passthrough of higher fuel costs to consumers, a great boon to the utility and a great pain to cop^ sumers. Last June, 'fhe SCC granted a $41 milr lion dollar annual rate increase to Vepco, raising the avprapp Virginia
95.2%