Americans were by definition people who had refrigerators, hot water heaters, air conditioners. We had electric lighting, wall outlets, and a multiplicity of things to plug into them. Increasing numbers of people, especially in the West, cooked on electric stoves and heated with electric radiators. We paid our bills in a timely manner, without much understanding how much electricity we were using, for what, and how much it actually cost. And though since the 1970s things have slowly begun to change, both culturally and in the business of electricity, for the most part these truisms still
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