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We can still hope that the State Corporation Commission.will act judiciously in the powerline case pending before it and on further requests for rate increases. If it considers all of the factors involved, including the completely new picture on electricity usage, down so dramatically, and if it places the interests of tens of thousands of consumers before the interests of a group of wellto -do Vepco stockholders intent on getting a 15 or 16 per cent return on their investments, then we can rest assured that just rulings will be made.
At the same time it must be said that some of the commission’s actions so far have been far from reassuring. Although environmental impact of the proposed new powerline was a key question in the recent hearings on the line, it named a computer firm to study the proposed route
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