Letter: What LIPA really means

A Long Island Power Authority truck is among those arriving to make repairs in Belle Harbor a couple of weeks after superstorm Sandy. (Nov. 12, 2012) Credit: AP
According to Gov. Andrew M. Cuomo’s Moreland Commission, the Long Island Power Authority paid “astronomical” rates and exorbitant travel costs totaling more than $28 million to an outside consulting firm between 2008 and 2011.
Once again the LIPA acronym also stands for “Long Islanders Pay Again!”
Bob Buscavage, Moriches