Someone is going to have to determine whose engineer is correct. That's part of the process. They try to reduce the number and we try to account for the dollars we spent.

Considering we have 1.3 million poles, that would be 120,000 a year.

We're well over a million, and it doesn't look like it's going to ease up.

We believe the expenses we are seeking recovery of were prudently incurred in serving our customers.

This is an increase in the adjustment in the fuel (cost) . . . that is a direct pass along to the customer. We're impacted by the same high costs of fuel that each of our customers are.

It won't affect prices at all. We anticipated the fluctuation in fuel prices when we set our rates.