| Show Without Bias And Without Favor Congress has ordel ordered ed an nn ln in quay into the relative e cost of died clee powel generated by private and public plants The value of the inquiry will depend entirely on the accuracy and impartiality with which it is conducted If politics steps in m the truth is liable Ii to step out and out and the proof of that lies in 10 other inquiries m in which political domination has dis distorted mo ono re el sed the facts f to tomake tomake tomake make a good sho showing mg foi for one side or the other othel Completely accurate can be obtained only by engineers and scientists with full leeway lee to dig down to the facts anah analyze ze and correlate them There Thele is for example e a wide dl di diversity el of accounting methods bet between be between t tween teen een public and te systems system In some instances city gO gOL gosen governments L n merits ments provide municipal plants plante with Ith legal egal collection and bookkeeping Ing sel services rind md make no chart for them In private operation these are all aU sizeable items in ln the operating budget Again the law reqUires private te systems to charge char e eI I off olf depreciation edition eCI and amortization annually so that I reports to the commissions am the public may show act actual un I Hues lues expenses and returns A large number of pub lie he plants being free from such restrictions charge off nothing I IAn An honest factual l report made up the engineers who ho have no bias in m other cither direction would be immensely valuable No such report on a national n scale I has e ever eer er been made and there is a 1 definite need for or one It will III have to take tahe into account the var varying mg cost of generation in m different sec sections sections of the the country country the best existing ex existing surveys show that where the cost for example ample at Bonne- Bonne Bonneville Bonneville ville ville in m Oregon will III be 15 1 5 mills per el it inns tuns as hl high h as 4 3 mills on the Tenn Tennessee River 1 It will hive have to mike make adjustments I for the various types of ener energy y water used water coil coal oil etc The sooner the inquiry is imbat initialed ed and completed the more valuable valuable valuable able it will be to all nU concerned |
