Saving electricity
Sir,—Human nature being what it is, I feel that appeals to the public to save electricity will be about as efficacious as asking people to be careful on the roads. Furthermore, in all likelihood it will be those with alternative means of heating who will show least regard for the public good. This might sound a jaundiced judgment, but it is based fairly soundly on experience. If we could all be rationed on a commonsense basis, with authority having a little more consideration for those who can prove that electricity is their only source of power, anyone with a respect for wholesome discipline would accept the hardships of the emergency in good part. Only those who regard their own comfort as of paramount importance would bleat about it.—Yours, etc., ANGLICE. June 13, 1973.
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Press, Volume CXIII, Issue 33253, 16 June 1973, Page 14
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