Public utilities provide electric, gas, water or telephone service to customers in a specified area. Utilities have a duty to provide safe and adequate service on reasonable terms to anyone who lives within the service area on without discriminating between customers. Because most utilities operate in near monopolistic conditions, they can be heavily regulated by local, state, and federal authorities. Generally, the local and state agencies are called Public Service Commissions (PSC) or Public Utility Commissions (PUC). Municipal Utilities and Rural Electric Cooperatives may be unregulated though.
White Oak is a small rural community in Camden County, southeast Georgia, USA some miles north of the Florida state line. The Shaker Community at White Oak, Georgia was short-lived. In 1999, the only evidence of the site of the community is a side street named Shaker Way off Providence Church Road. Evidence that the community once existed here can be seen from space but not on the ground. White Oak is in the middle of swamps between Brunswick to the North and Folkston, Georgia to the West and Woodbine, Georgia to the south. It is a small farming community with a Pentecostal Church and no apparent businesses otherwise. The coordinates are:31.01'.55.32" North and 81.43'.50.74 West.