Private companies and independent firms believe that the TVA
is a government-run monopoly selling electricity in bulk at low rates making it
difficult for them to compete with the TVA.
Apart from that their low rates enable them to be spared from taxation.
What speech are you referring to?
Well one way they where effected was with the geography and lay of the land many villages could not interact with each other easily. This caused trouble for villages cause their was some places with material that others could not get to without trade.