20110419Comment.pdf

Jean Jewell
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Friday, April 15, 2011 2: 15 PM
Jean Jewell; Beverly Barker; Gene Fadness
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A Comment from Mike Klem follows:
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Name: Mike Klem
Address: 1661 W. Sandalwood Drive
City: Meridian
State: Idaho
Zip: 83646
Daytime Telephone: [phone]
Contact E-Mail: mwkle~yahoo.com
Name of Utility Company: Idaho Power
Acknowledge: acknowledge
Please describe your comment briefly:
I have never in my life, heard of a company who maybe losing money because of such factors
as ecomony, being able to charge customers more than average cost for their losses and or
pension funds. It seems rediculious to even imagine the PUC allowing a rate increase because
of such factors. Granted private companies don' t have permanent customers like Idaho Power.
So they can' t even think of such actions. But Idaho Power was the ones who asked customers
to conserve. We did and now they wish to penalize us for doing so. This makes no sense what
so ever. And to add pensions on top of it all is ludic rious. It sounds like there is more
to the story than what was sent to customers in the mail . Like perhaps some over paying of
the top etchlon. And why is the employees pension fund in trouble? Again, sounds like
really poor management. Perhaps Idaho Power fails to realize that people are having troublé
making ends meet and by increasing their costs is not a remedy for the consumers. Especially
if they are on a fixed income. This FCA should be shot down before anyone on the PUC panel
wastes their breath on such a phoney reason for a rate increase. Even if it is for only a
year. I can't, in my wildest dreams, see or have even heard of anything so greedy by a
company or utility as this FCA. Lets get serious about this thing and get back to being a
public utili ty with dignity and honesty. The people demand that much from a public utility.
Thank you..
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