Well, I have lived here since 1993, and I can tell you how shocked I was after initially living in Eugene for over 9 years, to then move to Springfield and discover how dramatically cheaper both electricity and water are here.  

One key issue that the Register Guard continues to fail to share with the public is that EWEB employees participate in the PERS retirement system, while workers at SUB in Springfield do not.  Although that alone, certainly does not fully account for why rates have been so dramatically higher in Eugene.

What is really most stupid of all is to swallow whole the propaganda that has been put out for so many years, defending EWEB's excessively high rates.