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To the Editor:
It's startling to see in the Fortnightly such nonsense as Andrew Rudin's "Feel-Good Electric Waste" (April 1, 2003). He argues that since more efficient use of electricity has merely reduced rather than reversed growth of kilowatt-hour consumption—because the services provided grew even faster—efficient use is bad for the environment and "has not worked." Indeed, it makes us "just waste more electricity, only more efficiently than before."
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