The EDITOR, Sir:

The relevant ministry has to step in and do something about the high rates charged by the JPS. We are conserving and still the bill gets higher. Understanding the bill is not rocket science, as suggested by one of your readers in a letter to the editor, and we are quite capable of reading and understanding our bills.

Charging me over $9,000 for fuel charges when a barrel of oil costs $7,000 is highway robbery. Am I using a barrel of oil? Aren't additives added to the fuel? As for the Ivan recovery fund, how long are we going to be paying? Forever, it seems. We might have to revert to bottle lamps ... But wait! Kerosene is expensive.

The answer to our problem is alternate fuel and/or solar energy. We have enough vacant lands to grow corn or sugar cane and we have the sun.

We need to do something, and soon. People are suffering and it is not right for the JPS to take food out of poor people's mouths.

I am, etc.,

PAT WALKER

mspatkam@hotmail.com

Via Go-Jamaica