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representation at upcoming Vepco rate hike hearings.
The clinker in electricity bills that baffles everybody right now is that “fuel charge.” It keeps going up; there’s no explanation, no chance for public hearings, the bills just keep going up, up, up.
Obviously, they can’t go up forever — or, at least it’s obvious to the American consumer, who has already decided he won’t buy as many automobiles as he did before, or TV sets, or appliances, not when the price tags are so fantastic. Maybe the trouble with our economy is so simple that the economists refuse to recognize it — everything is too blooming expensive.
HERE’S hoping the electric utilities don’t go the way of the airlines and the passenger railroads, pricing themselves out of the market and then running crying to the public coffers to get bailed out, thereby socking it to the American consuming public a second time around. By all means, consumers arise —especially consumers of electricity—and let’s not have any of that nonsense in reply about “guaranteed” profit levels at a time when more and more Americans do not even have a job. We don’t know the answers
jo our current dilemma, but we are able to realize when something is too expensive, and when that something is as basic as electricity, then maybe we’re in deeper trouble than we realized. D 1 .
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