BUSINESS MEN AND PUBLIC POWER
Business Men And Public Power [AN EDITORIAL] ADVOCATES of municipal ownership should be greatly encouraged and re-inforced In their conviction that publicly owned utilities, soundly managed, offer...
...Then, let's take a look at the commercial light bills paid by the business and professional men of "Main street...
...serves about 25 per cent of Wisconsin—the densely populated, well-off-middle section of the state...
...The WDA is very much alive and keeps on fighting for municipal and co-operative ownership to help Wisconsin citizens obtain the benefits of cheap electricity...
...No wonder the private utilities mobilized all their forces to kill off the authority...
...Rice Lake buys its energy from the Northern States Power Co.— therefore the residents of Menomonie and Rice Lake are using electricity produced in the same plants and sent over the same wires...
...Why, we ask...
...But commercial light users In Manitowoc, municipally served, pay only $14.03 for the same amount of current...
...a little annoyed at his thrift, sent back a post card: "Dear Jim: Thanks for the perfectly lovely birthday check...
...These men in Baraboo, Beaver Dam, Monroe and other cities pay the Wisconsin Power and Light Co...
...33.50 for 750 kwh...
...and sells 100 kwh of it to its residents for $3, while the users in the above cities have to pay $4.90 for the same amount of energy, produced by the same plants and sent over the same wires...
...business men In Chippewa Falls, Eau Claire and La Crosse pay the Northern States Power Co...
...If the business men of Baraboo, Beaver Dam, Monroe, and other cities would acquaint themselves with the tribute they are paying every month to holding companies in New York, Chicago and Philadelphia, they would have a very interesting and practical subject to discuss at their Rotary and Commercial club meetings...
...in Clintonville, municipally served, $14.90...
...This difference is so great that neither the difference in taxes nor the cost of capital can justify it...
...rpHE Wisconsin Power and Light Co...
...Cashed The tight-fisted husband who was out of town for his wife's birthday sent her a check for a million kisses as a present...
...Our guess is that watered capital, milking by holding companies, and an outdated form of management are responsible for these differences...
...33.25 for the same energy...
...Yet a residential user in Menomonie pays $4.27 for 100 kwh compared to the Rice Lake user's bill of $3.20 for the same amount of energy...
...T'AKE as a comparison Menomonie, served by the Northern States Power Co., and Rice Lake, served by the city's municipal plant...
...Yet its residential rates are higher than those charged by the Lake Superior District Power Co., its sister company, which operates in the thinly settled northwestern part of the state...
...This study played an important part in Mt...
...The milkman cashed it this morning...
...Business Men And Public Power [AN EDITORIAL] ADVOCATES of municipal ownership should be greatly encouraged and re-inforced In their conviction that publicly owned utilities, soundly managed, offer the lowest electric rates to consumers...
...Or perhaps the Public Service commission can offer some explanation for these widely differing rates...
...Horeb's successful fight for municipal ownership...
...Or compare the residential rates of Columbus, served by a municipal plant, with those of Mayville, Tomah, Mineral Point, Horicon, and Mauston, served by the Wisconsin Power and Light Co...
...However, they have not succeeded...
...in Columbus, municipally served, $19.90...
...When the Wisconsin Development Authority published a similar residential rate study in 1939, it was an eye opener for many people...
...The w-ife...
...Incidentally, in 1939 the Rice Lake municipal plant paid $3,752 in taxes and made a profit of $14,275...
...A recent study by the Federal Power commission of private and public electric rates shows that Wisconsin's publicly owned utilities are selling electric energy at a substantially lower figure than private utilities...
...The city of Columbus buys all its energy from the Wisconsin Power and Light Co...
...in Kaukauna, municipally served, $15.01...
Vol. 10 • May 1940 • No. 21
