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BULLETIN 102, UNITED STATES NATIONAL MUSEUM. 
ELECTRICITY CAN NOT REPLACE GAS. 
There lias been a temporary and unwarranted faith in the possi- 
bilities of electricity replacing manufactured gas for cooking and 
house heating. 
People generally are hopeful and expectant when any theory is advanced 
or any suggestion made as to the possibilities of improvement or development 
CORNMEAL MUSH 
lb* Banka 
ROLLED OATS 
2.4 
4.3 4 I 
6.2 | 
6.6 £ | 
PUFFED RICE 
8.4 
FIG. 4. RELATIVE COST OF “ HOME-COOKED ” AND “ READY-TO-SERVE ” CEREALS. 
BOILED RICE 
SHREDDED WHEAT 
PUFFED WHEAT 
of electric service. So many wonderful results have been attained by electrical 
experts in the past that the public mind is prepared for anything short of an 
actual miracle. When it is asserted that soon practically all the drudgery of 
labor will be eliminated by means of electrical appliances, and that heat will 
$/Q° MANUFACTURED GAS INSULATED OVE N 
$!°° MANUFACTURED GAS ORDINARY STOVE 
3 . 3 $ bbhhhhhhhhmi 
27 <p GASOLINE 
$/3°3 COAL 
3j ELECTRICITY 
!5<P COAL OIL 
5-44 
FIG. 5. RELATIVE COST OF VARIOUS FUELS FOR COOKING A DINNER. 
be released for our homes by simply turning an electric switch, with no dust 
or dirt, no laying in a supply of coal and no worrying over stoves and furnaces, 
there is a ready response in the public mind, accepted more readily, no doubt, 
because the wish is father to the thought.* 
‘ Public Utilities Commission of Idaho, Opinion on Electric Heating, Oct. 17, 1919, 
pp. 7 to 21. 
