Dear Editor: “As voiced by numerous Wyoming residents, business owners and elected officials, a rate hike of this magnitude, or even far less, would devastate local Wyoming households and cripple local Wyoming businesses, in some cases crushing our ability to be competitive with foreign nations (i.e. China).”
Wyoming produces about 90% of the U.S. demand for trona. Rep. Jon Conrad says a proposed electricity rate hike would drive costs so high that the mines would struggle to compete with trona from China.