Last year it was food prices. This year soaring electricity bills could be the main focus of consumer outrage. In Maryland, where the Potomac Electric Power Co. is seeking a 22% residential rate increase, bumper stickers proclaim FIGHT THE HIKE, and customers are underpaying bills in protest. To battle a 23% increase proposed by the Virginia Electric & Power Co., local governments are raising a $100,000 legal war chest. Some bitter citizens in North Carolina have threatened" the life of State Utility Commission Chairman Marvin Wooten if Duke Power Co.'s call for a 23% increase is approved. Wooten says...
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