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<br />Thursday, May J. 1984
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<br />nUL the rcal1,('orld doesn't work so sensi.
<br />bly. parllcularly .....hen the federal &o\'crn.
<br />ment gets involvcd. Hoovcr's cheap pO',I".cr _
<br />less than h:llf a cent pcr kilowalt.hour com.
<br />p,Jrcd to rates as hi!::h as 7 cents in some parts
<br />of Southern C.)lLforma - goes only to cerlaln
<br />preferred utilities and po.....er authorities that
<br />ncgoliJtcd 50')'e:lr contracts from thc time c!
<br />Ihe cJm.s ('omplctlon in 1917.
<br />A tJ~;1 by Rep. r.lorns Udall. D.Arlz.. would
<br />(;,::'.'1:;] t~lo~e contracts another 30 ye:lrs. Into
<br />til': ~lst ccntury. The net result will be the
<br />......a.>~ejul a:1c.J cnjust allocation of power by
<br />burcaucrat:c fiat rather than the markel. His
<br />meJsure w(Juld subsidize Los Angeles but cut
<br />San Diego Jnd SJn FranCISco out of the
<br />action: reward Arizona and ~evada while
<br />excluding Utah. New Mexico and Colorado.
<br />Those unlucky areas won't be able to buy
<br />electricity from Hoover at any price. The)"ll
<br />simpl)' be shut OlJt altogether.
<br />AS EnVIronmental Defense Fund attorney
<br />Thomas Graff noted in a recent congressIOnal
<br />hearir:g. all that Justifies the Udall measure
<br />"Js the raw political po.....er of the Hoover
<br />beneficiaries and their representatives."
<br />Udall's bill would grant its fa\'ored cus.
<br />tamers po.....er at one. tenth the normal market
<br />price. Since the public owns the dam. the
<br />subsidy comes out of the taxpayers' pockets.
<br />In the last eight years of the original
<br />contract.lnO'19B7. that subSidy will amount
<br />to nearly a billion dollars. And for lust the
<br />first 10 years of the next contract period,
<br />taxpayers will lose $3.5 bil1ion m cor.st.Jnt
<br />1984 dollars, according to Graff's conser',',].
<br />live calculations.
<br />Subsicized power ine\,itably means wast.
<br />ed power. too: users ha\'e little inccntl\'e to
<br />consen'e when their electricity costs so little.
<br />The inefficiencies multiply in obscure ways:
<br />The Metropolitan Water District in Soulhern
<br />California. for example. uses cheap Hoo\'er
<br />power to subsidize its pumping of state water
<br />south o....er the TehachJpis. at the expense of
<br />the Delta and of Central Valley agriculture.
<br />The losers thus include all taxpJ)'ers. the
<br />millions of people illegItimately denied ac.
<br />cess to Hoover power, Jnd the land and water
<br />. en....ironments harmed by OIrtificJlly induced
<br />browlh.
<br />There is an alternath'e. Instead ot giving
<br />aWJY the power. Conbress could Juctlon It to
<br />the highest bidder. Rep. Barbara Ooxer. D.
<br />SJn nJfacl, will propose eXJctl}' that today on
<br />source of h)'cropower. It lies astride the the House Ooor m an amendmel"!; to the Udall
<br />transmission corridor bet.....een the Mod~to bill. Move the decision as to who bets what out
<br />district and ilS :\ew j\lexico utilit)'. Hoover or the politIcal arena artd into the m.Jrket
<br />could relieve all the pressure to develop tbe place where it belonbs. T.Jxpaycrs, power :..~,;,~:;-:..:
<br />Tuolumne simpl}' by agreemg to sell powcr to consumers, and the environment deserve a ~~.:.
<br />the Turlock and :.10desto districts. breJk today - and for the nel.130 )'ears, too. i-S:-:::~~
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