Electricity Spread More Quickly into Homes in Europe and North

Electricity spread more quickly into homes in Europe and North America because

A) people there were more comfortable with government intrusion into private life.
B) utilities there were funded by private customers.
C) the populations in those areas were generally richer.
D) cities were poorly lit, which meant individual homeowners had to pick up the slack.
E) tariffs prevented the sale of incandescent bulbs in colonies.