Public Policy and Price per KWH
指出能源成本持续上升与消费者预期之间存在根本矛盾，公共政策正从控制成本转向界定最低能源需求并探索非传统服务方案，为政策制定者应对1980年代的挑战提供分析。
A fundamental incongruity has emerged between continually rising costs and what energy consumers have learned to expect as energy needs. Public policy is beginning to recognize this incongruity. Policymakers are no longer focussing only on controlling utility costs, but have recently begun to question what levels of energy consumption constitute minimum energy needs, and whether non-traditional utility service options may be used to meet those needs. Public policy faces an uphill battle. The expectations of consumers are deeply rooted and are a logical outcome of the early economics of the industry. Finding equitable and efficient solutions to the inherent conflict between costs and needs is the challenge of public policy today, and will be throughout the 1980s.