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I know that many land^ owners and others expressed their anger and dismay at various regional hearings held by the SCC, but the chairman was unable to attend those regional hearings; moreover, it is now, while the SCC has the whole controversial question under advisement, that it needs to know you still care, you haven’t fallen asleep, you’re not so mesmerized by scandals in Washington that you can’t see an unconscionable private power play being pulled right in your own beautiful back yard.

ON THE surface, Vepco’s application might appear to be reasonable but only on the surface. The usage of electrical energy, it has contended, roughly doubles every ten years, and it must project its needs for the future. In reply to a letter I wrote to newspapers last year, a powerline spokesman even went so far as to say that electric energy costs would have to go up unless "the new line is built, and some consumers’ children might go without shoes as a result.

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