20090615Comment.pdf

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June 3, 2009
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Idao Public Utilties Commission
P.O. Box 83720
Boise, Idaho 83720-0074
Dear Commissioners:
May I register a complaint about all the rate increases you keeping giving to Idaho Power
Company? Is there no end to what you will do for them?
I live in Oregon but when you give them ":fe rein" in Idao it ver shortly spils over and
catches up with Idaho Power customers in Oregon. I have wrttn the Oregon PUC several
times in the pas but they just tu a dea ear. I hope YOU will listen as it all sta there in
Idao.
My electrcity bil for home use went up 20. i 586% in the calendar year Janua 2008 to
Janua 2009. With compounding our rates will double in about four years! I can show you
my bils and all the facts and figues if you would like to see them. Why do they tu right
around and ask for more? And why do you basically just give it to them? They always apply
for way more than they expect to get in case you cut their request back a litte bit. They then
end up with what they really hoped for in the first place.
According to the paper you just recently approved another 13.2% raise (I believe it was) for
them alreay ths year and we are barely though May.
Idao Power pushes for another rate increas about every 3 to 5 months, If the trth were
known I would bet they have the next five or six rate increase proposals all lined up in a
queue ready to submit to you durng the next two or thee year. As I see it they are drven
mostly (but not quite entirely) by greed. Period! Their stockholders are par of
the cause.
They are not willing to sufer a bit in the down economy like the rest of us have to.
We AR in a "down economy" and people ar huring, especially us Senior Citizens with
nothg much to live on except Social Securty. I wrote a letter to Idao Power dirtly about
ths concern and I DID give THEM all the facts and figus, including copies of my bils to
back up what I was telling them and they DIDN'T EVEN GIVE ME TH COURTESY OF A
RESPONSE! Tht is how much they care.
It is up to YOU to protect the public and do what is FAI to both the utility companes AN
the public. But fairness does NOT mean givig them everyg they want or even MOST
everyg they want. Limit them to 5 or 6 percent a year and let them live with it. They
CAN.
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Glen E. Baner
921 Forter St.
Ontao, Oregon 97914