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From Page 2 service our area locally, it seeks to despoil it permanently with an ugly, dangerous 500,000 k.v. powerline for transmission of power elsewhere. Its main pitch for this new line, indeed the very basis for its application still pending before the State Corporation Commission, has been its contention that electric demand doubles every ten years, and it must plan for this usage. This may have been true several years ago when the application was first filed (although this, too, can be questioned) but it is no longer true, and in light of the fuel emergencies and conservation of electric use and the recession and limits placed in various locales on growth, it may never be true again, or at least not for the foreseeable future. The plain fact is that instead of rising eight of nine per cent a year, Vepco system sales of electric fell throughout 1974, with virtually a
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