Why do they bother playing hanky-panky with numbers?

When clicking around to find where they burried what used to be a front page item on PUB's website, I once more took a look into public documents burried in their links to the much vaunted Golden Palace. Bad numbers cause an immediate reaction of disgust and revultion in me akin to that of a nun overhearing the football players the day after the homecomming dance.

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2006 Technical Memos

Every one of the scenerios has an explaination of assumptions at the bottom of the table that reads like this:

"Power Costs were added in the annual water treatment estimate of $.40 to treat a gallon of water. It is a line item under O&M Costs."

Now if this is the case, how come I can go to a Watermill and get 5 gallons of ultrapurified drinking water for .... $1? This price includes buying the source water from PUB and yet the company still shows a profit after ALL their overhead expenses related to selling me that water at 20¢ per gallon.

Making water cost more is the ONLY way these folks can justify the Golden Palace.

Call in the cleaning crew, 'cause they wee-wee'd on the carpet again.

"Of course I know. It is my business to know." -The Merovingian