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Thanks for the explanation. There must be a good reason why the US decided to distribute AC that way. Does anyone know why it is done this way?

I have checked How Stuff Work, About.com, Ask.com, Google and even asked an electrical engineer and found no satisfying answer to the following questions: For household AC current, why do we need 2 live, a neutral and a ground 4-wire connection? We get 3 wires from the street transformer where...