While harboring a coveted administration building big enough to house the entire Eugene city government, EWEB, a mere electrical utility, charges 62% more than Springfield Utility Board (SUB) for their base fee and 24% more on its rates for kilowatt hours (KWH), and is far less tolerant of low income users who get shut off when the poor are unable to pay large bills from living in residences demographically unlikely to be 'energy efficient.'  EWEB's cost for those KW hours are 2.7 cents, they have more than 80K subscribers, uh, and over 500 employees (!) - this is more than the entire staff of the Riverbend Hospital by about 100... so yes, likely they don't need a rate increase. And just for academic purposes, ... who actually -is- running EWEB, a public owned utility, and for whom do they run it?  And yes, too, there is reason to believe that the EWEB austerity and the positions cut are not... details to follow I hope.