The rural folk need it more, since they live farther apart. Unfortunately, none of the leaders at BPA have the vision to pursue the idea. They would rather capitulate to demands to waste BPA money on flow and spill. They will agitate for more government to perfect their vision of the Pacific Northwest ecosystem. Anybody who cares enough to read this book knows that the government isn't very reliable about fixing problems.
Monopolies never are.
More and more, citizens have to start paying serious attention to the government just to ensure the most basic governmental functions are not all screwed up. Citizens need to get organized for a fight that will take place in the media, before legislators, before administrators, and in the courts. Now that the Supreme Court has let citizens back into court, they can start regaining some legal ground that have been lost over the last twenty years to environmentalists. They can fight for rational approaches to natural resource management. There are many groups in the Pacific Northwest that need your help to fight back, including my client the Columbia River Alliance.