Volume 8, Number 4 · March 9, 1967
Light Mischief
By Ernest Gruening
Overcharge: How Electric Utilities Exploit and Mislead the Public, and What You Can Do About It
by US Senator Lee Metcalf, by Vic Reinemer
David McKay, 338 pp., $5.95
This book is a blockbuster, and it should be read by every user of electric light and power. It describes and documents how the privately owned public electric utilities charge the consumer excessively, and by erecting and subsidizing an elaborate public relations structure, deceive their victims. This book renders a valuable public service, revealing that American families pay excessive electric light bills and have been kept in ignorance of this. It is a sequel and thoroughgoing elaboration and enlargement of the reviewer's book, The Public Pays—A Study of Power Propaganda published a quarter of a century ago and republished, updated, three years ago, with an addition to its original title—And Still Pays.
Review, 1741 words
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