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To: ccryder who wrote (10827)3/14/2000 8:22:00 PM
From: LanceForest  Respond to of 29987
 
I'm not quite old enough to remember what 'REA' stands for, but how about 'Rural Electrification Agency' as a guess?



To: ccryder who wrote (10827)3/14/2000 8:48:00 PM
From: Sawtooth  Read Replies (1) | Respond to of 29987
 
<<Remember that much of the USA (area, not population) required a huge government subsidy to build out electric service in the US in the 30s and 40s in the form of REA. (Anyone remember what that stands for?)>>

ccryder: I am much to young to remember from personal experience <grn> but wonder if you don't mean REC - Rural Electric Cooperatives?

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To: ccryder who wrote (10827)3/14/2000 11:39:00 PM
From: Red Heeler  Respond to of 29987
 
REA: Rural Electric Association. Some association members are still getting their checks.

25 years or so back I visited a small village in Mexico with no electricity but with plenty of houses (shacks) that had a television antenna on the roof. They powered their TVs with their car batteries.
When they get their Globalstar payphone, they'll figure out a way to keep it going with or without electrical service as will other resourceful technophiles around the world.


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