By Emmanuel T. EredianoVariety News Staff
FINDING the funds to cover the shortfall of the Commonwealth Utility Corp. is the problem of CUC and the government and not consumers, according to Taotao Tano leader Greg Cruz Jr. (See story on page 4)Cruz at the same time criticized CUC Executive Director Anthony Guerrero for not proposing a solution to the problem and for complaining about the enactment of the P.L. 15-94 which lowers electricity rates for residential consumers to 17.6 per kilowatt hour.The measure was vetoed by Gov. Benigno R. Fitial but the Legislature voted for an override.In his letter to Guerrero, Cruz said the consumers have suffered enough.He said paying exorbitant bills for a number of years and getting disconnected when they fail to pay, it is the consumers who have actually been “subsidizing your utilities agency” and were paying for its operational revenue losses for the past years. “We live on a small island and what goes around comes around to haunt you, especially when the problems were created and intentionally,” Cruz said.He said because of a “conspiracy” between CUC and the government, the consumers were made to pay for the agency’s revenue losses.Cruz said CUC should “stop its scare tactics” and its claim that it will have more serious problems in the future due to the shortfall. He told Guerrero to lead CUC employees in holding a protest outside the Legislature.“Maybe the lawmakers) may come up with the shortfall,” Cruz said. It was Cruz and his group who lobbied for the passage of the power rate reduction bill.
Wednesday, October 24, 2007
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